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#1 GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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The various models AMD/Ati 'budget cards' compared:

AMD/Ati 'budget cards' compared
ModelVideo ChipShadersGFLOP SPGFLOP DPTDP in Wtt
HD 4770RV74064096019280
HD 5770/6770Juniper XT8001360none108
HD 7770Cape Verde XT64012808080
HD 7790Bonaire XT896179212885
R7 260Bonaire76815369695
R7 360Tobago7681613101100
R7 460Polaris-11896215012275
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#2 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Can we get even more 'budget'? Yes, we can!

More ' budget' AMD
ModelVideo ChipShadersGFLOP SPGFLOP DPTDP in Watt
HD 4670RV730 XT320480none59
HD 5670Redwood XT400620none64
HD 6550DBeaverCreek*400480none65-100*
HD 7670/6670Turks XT480768none66
HD 7550DDevastator*384614yes65-100*
HD 8670DDevastator*384648yes65-100*
R7 250Oland XT3847684875
R7 7890K?*5127354665-95*
*=IGP, runs along for free with your CPU -which runs anyway while crunching, cheapskate!
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#3 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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What is THE cheapest AMD-based GPU crunching solution? It is my beloved AM1 platform.
Mobo's as cheap as 25 Euro's can be combined with a quad-core Athlon 5350 that will take 40 Euro's out of your wallet and from there it is only the cost of a HDD or SSD and some RAM as I got plenty of old cases and PSUs, but I prefer iTX cases with a small -less than 100 Watt- internal PSU.
The Athlon 5350 has an internal R3 GPU with 128 shaders that will crunch for you, but don't expect wonders...
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#4 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Time for some tinkering. Let's assume your name is Chris Crossfire and that you recently bought a secondhand FM1 mobo with room for three video cards (Yes, they do exist, got one of them myself).
Our hypothetical Chris Crossfire, always short on money, then goes hunting for a cheap secondhand FM1 APU. This can be even easier than the hunt for his mobo, as everybody wants to get rid of the FM1 thingies. The same goes for the cards that can be combined with the APU to go into Chris' namesake Crossfire, albeit the virtual branch of the family: HD 6450s, HD 6570s and HD 6670s.
Now Scole already warned that combining two (or more) cheap cards can end up worse than one supposedly expensive card in terms of GFLOPs and Watts -read Quids, Greenbacks- but I will take it into extremes here and let Chris go hunting for three dirt-cheap HD 6450s to combine with his Athlon A8-3850.

As he turns on his newly-built GPU cruncher, the power meter in his apartment shifts gear as the APU (100 Watt) and the three GPUs (some 25 Watt each) pull 175 Watt alone for roughly 1100 GFLOP. After some months of crunching his wife gets cross with him over the power bill and he has scored very little credits, BOINC-wise. So he decides to go crunching in the low tarif hours, but now he needs stronger GPUs and he trades his three HD 6450s (plus some extra) for three HD 6670s. Now he can pull 300 Watt out of the wall while crunching 2700 GFLOP, which leaves his wife utterly unimpressed (and BOINC likewise).

What should he have done? He should have bought a Radeon HD 7990, and relegate an easy GPU project to be run from the IGP of his APU while going full for the other GPU projects using -in the low tarif hours- the 375 Watt TDP HD 7990, as it does 8200 GFLOP (SP) alone and has considerable Double Precision capability too.
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#5 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Linux kernel 5 and the rehabilitation of the AM1 platform.

You might remember that after Ubuntu 16.04 things went rotten with 'older' AMD cards and IPGs, but that has changed with the introduction of the latest Linux kernels.
At the moment I have an AM1 system with both the AMDGPU and the AMDGPU PRO driver running to my astonishment:

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14-8-2019 11:23:23	Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon Graphics (driver version 2671.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2671.3), 2553MB, 2553MB available, 154 GFLOPS peak)	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD KABINI (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-25-generic, LLVM 8.0.0) (driver version 19.0.8, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 19.0.8, 3072MB, 3072MB available, 96 GFLOPS peak)	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL CPU: pthread-AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 (OpenCL driver vendor: The pocl project, driver version 1.1, device version OpenCL 1.2 pocl HSTR: pthread-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-bdver3)	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	[libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Host name: Asrock-AM1H-ITX	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 [Family 22 Model 0 Stepping 1]	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS [5.0.0-25-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Memory: 14.62 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Disk: 109.53 GB total, 75.23 GB free	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Local time is UTC +2 hours	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	VirtualBox version: 5.2.32_Ubuntur132056	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Config: use all coprocessors
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#6 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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I am very interested, thanks. Can I use this on Ubuntu 19.04 with xeons please?

Also, how is the performance vs. AMD under Windows. Reason I ask is that I did get AMD cards working with 18.10 (I think) but the returns were very poor by comparison to what others were getting with same card under Windows. I am thinking particularly of RX580 crunching Einstein.

If you have installation instructions, I'll be happy to give it a try
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#7 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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davidBAM wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:36 pmI am very interested, thanks. Can I use this on Ubuntu 19.04 with xeons please?
Not sure what you mean. You want to crunch on the IGP of Xeon's? AMDGPU or AMDGPU PRO are not gonna help there. If you want to crunch on the IGP of a Xeon (or i9, i7, i5, i3, pentium, Celeron) you can use the new NEO compute driver under Linux. But running another discrete GPU alongside might pose problems. You might want to try to run a RX580 using both AMDGPU and AMDGPU PRO though...
Also, how is the performance vs. AMD under Windows. Reason I ask is that I did get AMD cards working with 18.10 (I think) but the returns were very poor by comparison to what others were getting with same card under Windows. I am thinking particularly of RX580 crunching Einstein. If you have installation instructions, I'll be happy to give it a try.
Such a question can best be answered via WUProp. Go to their 'results' section and select e.g. GPU Credit for the RX580.
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#8 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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No, xeon (rather than anything AM1) will be the cpu platform. AMD RX580 or older for the GPU
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#9 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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YMMV: Check whether you have Linux Kernel 5.0 (or higher) first. If you have a crunching setup with the open-source AMDGPU driver for your RX580, install the latest 19.20 AMDGPU PRO driver -download at AMD- over it and keep your fingers crossed. Works for Moo!, Seti gives seg fault errors.
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#10 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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yup 5.0 according to https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-19 ... -0-kernel/

I'll give it a go thanks
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#11 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Just to keep you busy: There's a new Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu: 20.04, with Kernel 5.4 and Boinc-Client 7.16.6

Now I didn't pinpoint the culprit yet, but 20.04 gives the well-known "No usable GPUs found", 7.16.6 adding the dreaded "GPU detection failed: process exited with status 1: Operation not permitted" --mind you: this is the very system that ran GPU tasks under two different drivers on its R3/HD8400 IGP under Xubuntu 18.04, as mentioned a few posts earlier in this thread.

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1-5-2020 04:00:26	Starting BOINC client version 7.16.6 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
1-5-2020 04:00:26	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, coproc_debug	
1-5-2020 04:00:26	Libraries: libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3	
1-5-2020 04:00:26	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
1-5-2020 04:00:26	[coproc] launching child process at /usr/bin/boinc	
1-5-2020 04:00:26	[coproc] with data directory /var/lib/boinc-client	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	GPU detection failed: process exited with status 1: Operation not permitted	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	[coproc] read_coproc_info_file() returned error -108	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	No usable GPUs found	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	libc: Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9 version 2.31	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Host name: Asrock-AM1H-ITX	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 [Family 22 Model 0 Stepping 1]	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS [5.4.0-28-generic|libc 2.31 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9)]	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Memory: 15.08 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Disk: 109.04 GB total, 60.95 GB free	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	Local time is UTC +2 hours	
1-5-2020 04:00:27	VirtualBox version: 6.1.6_Ubuntur137129	
Note the total lack of OpenCL, even that for the CPU (POCL). Clinfo gives "CommandLine Error: Option 'limited-coverage-experimental' registered more than once!
LLVM ERROR: inconsistency in registered CommandLine options"
The culprit seems to be that various parts needed for crunching have been compiled using the same LLVM version...
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#12 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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I had such high hopes.

Thank you - you just saved me a fair bit of time trying
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#13 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Partial success: Lubuntu 20.04 is now using its GPU -hat off to Oibaf. It -Lubuntu- didn't have the 'GPU detection failed: process exited with status 1: Operation not permitted' warning that Xubuntu 20.04 gave in the BOINC log in the first place.

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12-5-2020 12:02:54	Starting BOINC client version 7.16.6 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Libraries: libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD KABINI (DRM 3.35.0, 5.4.0-29-generic, LLVM 9.0.1) (driver version 20.2.0-devel, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 20.2.0-devel (git-0bea2a1 2020-05-11 focal-oibaf, 3072MB, 3072MB available, 96 GFLOPS peak)	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	libc: Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9 version 2.31	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Host name: MSI-AM1I	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 [Family 22 Model 0 Stepping 1]	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS [5.4.0-29-generic|libc 2.31 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9)]	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Memory: 15.09 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Disk: 213.02 GB total, 176.93 GB free	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	Local time is UTC +2 hours	
12-5-2020 12:02:54	VirtualBox version: 6.1.6_Ubuntur137129	
Xubuntu 20.04 still sucks. Gonna test the full Ubuntu 20.04 on a dedicated test system with a nVidia card next.
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#14 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Dirk Broer wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:45 am Linux kernel 5 and the rehabilitation of the AM1 platform.

You might remember that after Ubuntu 16.04 things went rotten with 'older' AMD cards and IPGs, but that has changed with the introduction of the latest Linux kernels.
At the moment I have an AM1 system with both the AMDGPU and the AMDGPU PRO driver running to my astonishment:

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14-8-2019 11:23:23	Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3	
14-8-2019 11:23:23	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon Graphics (driver version 2671.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2671.3), 2553MB, 2553MB available, 154 GFLOPS peak)	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD KABINI (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-25-generic, LLVM 8.0.0) (driver version 19.0.8, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 19.0.8, 3072MB, 3072MB available, 96 GFLOPS peak)	
14-8-2019 11:23:24	OpenCL CPU: pthread-AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 (OpenCL driver vendor: The pocl project, driver version 1.1, device version OpenCL 1.2 pocl HSTR: pthread-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-bdver3)	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	[libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Host name: Asrock-AM1H-ITX	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 [Family 22 Model 0 Stepping 1]	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS [5.0.0-25-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Memory: 14.62 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Disk: 109.53 GB total, 75.23 GB free	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Local time is UTC +2 hours	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	VirtualBox version: 5.2.32_Ubuntur132056	
14-8-2019 11:23:25	Config: use all coprocessors
L'histoire se répète (pardon me Klatchian): After the initial refusing of Xubuntu 20.04 to behave there was an update -and now it works as Ubuntu 18.04 did after kernel 5 came out.
Even more surprising was that Linux Mint 19.3 stopped seeing its IGP after that update and, after checking for the Intel Neo GPU driver it seemed to have disappeared. So I downloaded the latest one, installed it and - nothing. I searched for Intel-opencl-icd and found nothing. From sheer WTF I installed the ICD of the old intel driver, Beignet, and presto:

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20-5-2020 14:19:40	Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
20-5-2020 14:19:40	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task	
20-5-2020 14:19:40	Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3	
20-5-2020 14:19:40	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
20-5-2020 14:20:53	OpenCL: Intel GPU 0 (ignored by config): Intel(R) Gen9 HD Graphics NEO (driver version 20.19.16754, device version OpenCL 1.2 NEO, 3277MB, 3277MB available, 115 GFLOPS peak)	
20-5-2020 14:20:53	OpenCL: Intel GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics Family (driver version 1.3, device version OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3, 4096MB, 4096MB available, 144 GFLOPS peak)	
20-5-2020 14:20:53	OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver J5005 CPU @ 1.50GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Intel(R) Corporation, driver version 18.1.0.0920, device version OpenCL 2.1 (Build 0))	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	[libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Host name: Asrock-J5005-iTX	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver J5005 CPU @ 1.50GHz [Family 6 Model 122 Stepping 1]	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperf	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	OS: Linux LinuxMint: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia [5.3.0-53-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Memory: 15.05 GB physical, 15.43 GB virtual	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Disk: 314.28 GB total, 147.37 GB free	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	Local time is UTC +2 hours	
20-5-2020 14:20:59	VirtualBox version: 5.2.34_Ubuntur133883	
As the system is already swamped with one running GPU doing Collatz, I leave it be for the moment. If and when Seti and/or Seti beta come back to life, I'll experiment some more.
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#15 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Know anything about this? Can't find a price anywhere...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/axiom ... spberry-pi
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#16 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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scole of TSBT wrote: Thu May 21, 2020 2:46 am Know anything about this? Can't find a price anywhere...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/axiom ... spberry-pi
Article closes with "You can order the CAPA13R from the Axiomtek website now for an undisclosed price"...
But my guess is about 200-300 US$
This is a competitor, for a likewise price.
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#17 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Dirk Broer wrote: Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:22 am The various models AMD/Ati 'budget cards' compared:
This needed some updating
AMD/Ati 'budget cards' compared
ModelVideo ChipShadersGFLOP SPGFLOP DPTBP in Watt
HD 4770RV74064096019280
HD 5770/6770Juniper XT8001360none108
HD 7770Cape Verde XT64012808080
HD 7790Bonaire XT896179212885
R7 260Bonaire76815369695
R7 360Tobago7681613101100
RX 460Baffin896215012275
RX 560Baffin1024261116380
RX 5600Navi 10 XE20486390400150
RX 5600 XTNavi 10 XLE23048066504160
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#18 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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Dirk Broer wrote: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:28 am Can we get even more 'budget'? Yes, we can!
Another update, and I decided to separate GPUs and IGPs
Lesser ' budget' AMD GPUs
ModelVideo ChipVideo Speed MHzRAM Speed MHzRAM Bandwidth GB/sShadersSM/CU countGFLOP SPGFLOP DPTBP in Watt
HD 4350RV7106004006.4080196none20
HD 5450Cedar Pro6504006.40802104none19
HD 6450Caicos62580025.601602200none18
HD 7450Caimour75080012.801602240none18
R5 230Caicos Pro62566710.671602200none19
R5 330Hainan85590014.403205547.234.2050
R5 430Oland Pro780115036.80384659937.4450
RX 550Lexa PRO11001750112.051281,21175.7150
RX 5300Navi 14 XE14481750168.01408224,632289.5100
RX 6400Navi 24 XL20392000128.0768123,565222.853
These are, most of the times, the very lowest that AMD could field in that generation. Cheap in both purchase and electricity bill afterwards -but zilch performance, especially in the older models. From the RX 6400 model up they become interesting though, for the 24/7/365 cruncher...

'Budget' AMD IGPs
ModelVideo ChipVideo Speed MHzRAM Speed MHzRAM Bandwidth GB/sShadersSM/CU countGFLOP SPGFLOP DPTBP in Watt
A8-3870KSumo*600SystemSystem4005480none100*
A10-5800KDevastator*800SystemSystem3846614yes100*
A10-6800KDevastator*844SystemSystem3846648yes100*
A12-7890KR7*866SystemSystem51288864695*
A12-9800GR7*1108SystemSystem51281,1355965*
R5 2400GRX Vega 11*1240SystemSystem704111,76010965*
R5 3400GRX Vega 11*1400SystemSystem704111,97112365*
R7 4700GRX Vega 8*2100SystemSystem51282,15013465*
R7 5700GRX Vega 8*2100SystemSystem51282,04812865*
'budget', because it is the top model IGP, in the most expensive APU of its generation.
*=IGP, runs along for free with your CPU -which runs anyway while crunching, cheapskate!
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#19 Re: GPU Crunching on a budget: AMD

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