Recommended GPU for folding?

[Datrat]

Wondering what to get. Thinking of using this as a folding rig. Not mining and I was wondering what some of the best GPU's would be (Better price-to-performance would be awesome!!)

[r2724r16]

5 minutes ago, Datrat said:

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This link doesn't work for me.

5 minutes ago, Datrat said:

Not mining and I was wondering what some of the best GPU's would be (Better price-to-performance would be awesome!!)

GTX 970, 1060, used 1070, used 1080 Ti

[porina]

10 minutes ago, Datrat said:

Wondering what to get. Thinking of using this as a folding rig. Not mining and I was wondering what some of the best GPU's would be (Better price-to-performance would be awesome!!)

May vary depending if you care more about up front cost or power usage?

3 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

This link doesn't work for me.

It is a rack mount sold for mining rigs, doesn't include components, just the racking.

3 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

GTX 970, 1060, used 1070, used 1080 Ti

Not sure I'd seriously consider Maxwell just because of power consumption. 2070 interesting if buying new, mine compares in perf to my 1080Ti although I've not really benched very seriously.

[FloRolf]

10 minutes ago, porina said:

May vary depending if you care more about up front cost or power usage?

It is a rack mount sold for mining rigs, doesn't include components, just the racking.

Not sure I'd seriously consider Maxwell just because of power consumption. 2070 interesting if buying new, mine compares in perf to my 1080Ti although I've not really benched very seriously.

Why maxwell for power consumption? 

 

The best cards in ppd/w are pretty much always the newest and the most high end. 

 

I've made a quick comparison once:

GT1030 - 2300 ppd/w

GTX1080 - 4000 ppd/w

RTX2080Ti - 8500 ppd/w

 

 

Edit:

My conclusion is, get a GTX1070 and up for good ppd/w and generally a good ppd. 1070Ti actually folds faster than a 1080 for some reason. 

 

Edit2:

Owowow, just had a look at your link. Mining setups are NOT good for folding. 

Other than mining, folding is really dependent on the bandwidth between cpu and gpu (the pcie lanes), which makes the pcie 1x solutions used in mining terrible. You will see really bad performance when going lower than pcie 8x

 

 

[porina]

31 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Why maxwell for power consumption? 

I didn't say that. I was saying not to as previous poster mentioned 970.

 

31 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

The best cards in ppd/w are pretty much always the newest and the most high end. 

 

I've made a quick comparison once:

GT1030 - 2300 ppd/w

GTX1080 - 4000 ppd/w

RTX2080Ti - 8500 ppd/w

Did you actually measure power, of GPU only or at wall? Or used TDP? With or without power optimisations?

 

Only thinking that folding seems to be a little mining-like, in that it doesn't care so much about core, but likes mem clock. Within a generation, the vram bandwidth drops as you go to the top end, so depending on the strength of the effect, a lower card could have a better ratio and relative performance. I don't know if this would apply to folding though.

 

31 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

My conclusion is, get a GTX1070 and up for good ppd/w and generally a good ppd. 1070Ti actually folds faster than a 1080 for some reason. 

Again thinking back to mining days, the GDDR5X cards originally sucked at mining ether. I think it was more because of vram latency than bandwidth. Maybe something similar could be happening here?

31 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Owowow, just had a look at your link. Mining setups are NOT good for folding. 

It's not a mining setup, only a frame that was sold for that purpose. 

 

31 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Other than mining, folding is really dependent on the bandwidth between cpu and gpu (the pcie lanes), which makes the pcie 1x solutions used in mining terrible. You will see really bad performance when going lower than pcie 8x

16x risers could be used instead (obviously only at 8x on consumer CPUs) limiting to two cards a system... is it that bad dropping below 8x? That frame might be usable with two host systems if getting bandwidth off a single mobo is too much beyond 2 or 3 cards.

[Datrat]

4 hours ago, r2724r16 said:

This link doesn't work for me.

 

[Datrat]

4 hours ago, FloRolf said:

Why maxwell for power consumption? 

 

Owowow, just had a look at your link. Mining setups are NOT good for folding. 

Other than mining, folding is really dependent on the bandwidth between cpu and gpu (the pcie lanes), which makes the pcie 1x solutions used in mining terrible. You will see really bad performance when going lower than pcie 8x

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I meant the case. I would only have a max of 3 cards. Just better airflow

[FloRolf]

7 hours ago, porina said:

I didn't say that. I was saying not to as previous poster mentioned 970.

 

Did you actually measure power, of GPU only or at wall? Or used TDP? With or without power optimisations?

 

Only thinking that folding seems to be a little mining-like, in that it doesn't care so much about core, but likes mem clock. Within a generation, the vram bandwidth drops as you go to the top end, so depending on the strength of the effect, a lower card could have a better ratio and relative performance. I don't know if this would apply to folding though.

 

Again thinking back to mining days, the GDDR5X cards originally sucked at mining ether. I think it was more because of vram latency than bandwidth. Maybe something similar could be happening here?

It's not a mining setup, only a frame that was sold for that purpose. 

 

16x risers could be used instead (obviously only at 8x on consumer CPUs) limiting to two cards a system... is it that bad dropping below 8x? That frame might be usable with two host systems if getting bandwidth off a single mobo is too much beyond 2 or 3 cards.

No I didn't measure myself, these are just rough numbers. Power consumption taken from guru3d load tests of the GPU's and ppd from overclock3d database. That makes it not perfect, i know, but still gives you an idea. 

 

Actually it likes both, core and memory, but I don't know which one it prefers tbh. Might be interesting to try the 3 different GTX1060 for that. 

 

Okay, of only the frame with 3 gpus is er then it's fine, but most mining boats with like 16 pcie 1x slots are not good. @OP will need a board that supports 3 way basically in order to not lose a lot of performance. It's hard to find benchmarks of pcie bandwidth but trust me, its there, lol.

4 hours ago, Datrat said:

I meant the case. I would only have a max of 3 cards. Just better airflow

 

[Gorgon]

20 hours ago, Datrat said:

I meant the case. I would only have a max of 3 cards. Just better airflow

For 3 PCIe3 x16 slots at x8 you'll have to go to X99 so your motherboard and CPU will be much more expensive if buying new.

 

3 systems running inexpensive 4C/4T or 2C/4T CPUs on Socket 1151 or AM4 each with 2 graphics cards and 650-750W Power Supplies  will be much less expensive in total than 2 x99 systems with 1000-1600W Power supplies.

[Datrat]

This is meant to be a cheaper system 24/7 folding. With maybe a 570

 

[CryptoGeek]

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