5700 XT low utilization and PPD for Folding?

[dmynerd78]

Every time I try folding on my 5700 XT I seem to get results way lower than what I find online. Compute 1 only shows 60% utilization and the average PPD from it says it's only doing roughly 345K. Whereas my 2060 KO (not shown in attached image) is doing ~860K PPD. The GPU PPD Database shows I should be getting way more than the 2060 KO yet I'm not. Do you guys have any ideas as to why? I'm running Radeon Drivers 20.1.3 (although it's been doing this on multiple versions going all the way back to 19.7.5). Restarting does not appear to change anything. Running Windows 10 Pro 1909

EDIT: Seems like pausing CPU Folding on my 2700X makes Compute 1 jump up to 90% which gives around 670K PPD. Should it be giving more than that? F@H GPU Database states the average is 1.4 Mill but that seems a like too big of a gap

 

 

 

[Bombastinator]

2060kos are known to do weird and very powerful things occasionally with compute.  It doesn’t surprise me that a 2060ko might be absolutely bad ass at folding with that 104chip.

[dmynerd78]

Man that kinda stinks wish I could've gotten another KOs for the price of the XT but I bought it waaaay before the KOs ever came to market

[Gorgon]

16 hours ago, dmynerd78 said:

Every time I try folding on my 5700 XT I seem to get results way lower than what I find online. Compute 1 only shows 60% utilization and the average PPD from it says it's only doing roughly 345K. Whereas my 2060 KO (not shown in attached image) is doing ~860K PPD. The GPU PPD Database shows I should be getting way more than the 2060 KO yet I'm not. Do you guys have any ideas as to why? I'm running Radeon Drivers 20.1.3 (although it's been doing this on multiple versions going all the way back to 19.7.5). Restarting does not appear to change anything. Running Windows 10 Pro 1909

EDIT: Seems like pausing CPU Folding on my 2700X makes Compute 1 jump up to 90% which gives around 670K PPD. Should it be giving more than that? F@H GPU Database states the average is 1.4 Mill but that seems a like too big of a gap

 

 

 

I'm assuming you have an 8c/16t CPU and it appears you've assigned 15 threads to CPU folding. With the OS overhead you might be starving the GPU as there might not be enough CPU available to keep it fed or it's going crazy task switching.

 

I'd leave at least one or two threads free for the OS - say fix the CPU folding to 13 threads or lower and see what happens.

 

Dumb question but I have to ask - Does GPUz report the 5700 is in a PCIe slot with 8 or more PCIe3 lanes (i.e. it's in the top slot)

[dmynerd78]

6 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Dumb question but I have to ask - Does GPUz report the 5700 is in a PCIe slot with 8 or more PCIe3 lanes (i.e. it's in the top slot)

Yup GPUz says x16 at PCIE 3.0. HWInfo also agrees and says PCIe Link Speed is 16 GT/s (as seen in the screenshot)

And yes disabling CPU folding did bump up the GPU PPD to around 670K

[j0hn0b]

I'm having a similar problem, my 5700xt is saying ~80k PPD. it's at 75-80% utilization on compute 1 only. It's significantly below what I would expect with the card. How can I improve the performance?

[Gorgon]

4 hours ago, j0hn0b said:

I'm having a similar problem, my 5700xt is saying ~80k PPD. it's at 75-80% utilization on compute 1 only. It's significantly below what I would expect with the card. How can I improve the performance?

Yup, no QRB.  Base Credit = Credit.  Once you've gotten and input a PassKey and completed 10 WUs you can start seeing how it’s performing

[LDSG Paradox]

I struggled with this for a while. I was getting 9k PPD. I paused the WU, removed the GPU slot, rebooted the machine, added the GPU slot with client-type = advanced, and rebooted again. Now I am on FahCore 0x22 and getting significantly better results.

[Mihle]

The first WU I started on on my 5700xt had a estimated PPD of 1,1 million. Don't know after that yet.