4060 and Folding

[alex75871]

It is well established that the 4060 and 4060 Ti are of poor value for gaming, but what about Folding@home? One of the few (and possibly only) advantages of the 4060 is its lower power consumption. Will the 4060's controversial memory bus affect its Folding@home performance? Is anyone here using 4060 or 4060 Ti for Folding@home?

[Gorgon]

The 8-lane bus width of the 4060 should not impact Folding Performance. I run 4070tis, a 4070 and a 4060ti. The 4070ti is most-efficient but the 4060 should be much more efficient (PPD/W) than the 3000-series and greatly more efficient than the 2000-series.

 

Even though there isn't a lot of difference in the number of CUDA Cores between the 3000 and 4000 series the Base Clock has been raised from 1500 to about 2200MHz greatly increasing their yields in Folding and they tend to run on average at less power per CUDA core than the 300-series.

 

Likewise, Folding uses very little VRAM (Typically less than 2GB) so the more limited VRAM Bus Speed and Size should not impact them in Folding.

[Applefreak]

On 7/16/2023 at 5:22 AM, alex75871 said:

It is well established that the 4060 and 4060 Ti are of poor value for gaming, but what about Folding@home? One of the few (and possibly only) advantages of the 4060 is its lower power consumption. Will the 4060's controversial memory bus affect its Folding@home performance? Is anyone here using 4060 or 4060 Ti for Folding@home?

I'm doing about 3.250.000 PPD on average on my 4060. Depending on the project a WU will finish between 1h15min and 2h, most have been around 1h20min so far. Pretty decent I'd say at 115W power. The poor value for gaming argument makes no sense to me. The card performs quite a bit better than a 3060 at the same price (at least in my area) The 3060 Ti offers better value in terms of fps but at nearly twice the power drawn (it also is quite a bit more expensive unless you get a generic one). I also like the faster CUDA processing for video rendering. I use the Gaming X from MSI, even at full load it is super quiet and stays really cool. Folding has shown it works even on cards that are connected to narrower PCI-e interfaces, same as with mining, as those workloads are mainly done on the GPU and require less overall system interaction. The value argument makes sense if you are a generational upgrader and are on a 3060 now and expected more. I'd put the 4060 as a 3060 replacement rather than a generational upgrade. In my case I was upgrading after years of overpriced GPUs from a GTX 960 and a friend of mine replaced his 1060 as well. The increase in gaming performance in 1080p is quite significant. I do like the efficiency here. That being said, if I were to buy a new monitor (currently 1080p 60Hz), I'd get a 4070 or the equivalent from AMD. 

 

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[Gorgon]

On 9/5/2023 at 6:18 PM, Applefreak said:

... if I were to buy a new monitor (currently 1080p 60Hz), I'd get a 4070 or the equivalent from AMD.

For Folding, in my experience bumping up to the 4070ti would yield much better efficiency. My 4070 comes nowhere even close to the efficiencies I get out of my 4070tis.