Radeon R9 280X for MilkyWay@Home

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Alessio Susi Send message Joined: 8 Mar 15 Posts: 30 Credit: 78,362,550 RAC: 3	Message 69348 - Posted: 16 Dec 2019, 15:58:13 UTC Is a Radeon R9 280X useful for MilkyWay@Home? I know they have great FP64 performance and it could be useful for this project. ASUS X570 E-Gaming AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, 16 core / 32 thread 4.4 GHz AMD Radeon Sapphire RX 480 4GB Nitro+ Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio 4x16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz ID: 69348 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Keith Myers Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 722 Credit: 561,682,468 RAC: 50,945	Message 69349 - Posted: 16 Dec 2019, 18:22:58 UTC I believe they are great producers for this project. They just use a lot of power compared to later generations. ID: 69349 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

bluestang Send message Joined: 13 Oct 16 Posts: 112 Credit: 1,174,293,644 RAC: 0	Message 69351 - Posted: 17 Dec 2019, 3:32:05 UTC Yep, great MW cruncher. Run 3 tasks per 280X. ID: 69351 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Vortac Send message Joined: 22 Apr 09 Posts: 95 Credit: 4,808,181,963 RAC: 0	Message 69399 - Posted: 23 Dec 2019, 23:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 69348. R9 280X is a rebadged HD7970. One should provide about 600k RAC, not bad at all. ID: 69399 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

gambatesa Send message Joined: 23 Feb 18 Posts: 26 Credit: 4,744,416,145 RAC: 0	Message 69417 - Posted: 31 Dec 2019, 9:53:36 UTC From years for MW It's the best bang-for-buck.. 3x7970 costs less then a half of a Radeon VII and give the same credits (about 1400-1500k).. the downside is 3x power consumption (3/350W x gpu), a bigger psu needed and 3x heat to cool.. and with fans spinning always near to 100% they need to be clean and replace when needed (but it's a problem of all gpus) Want your Kids stay off from Drugs? Get them building Crunching PC's and they'll never have enough money for drugs ID: 69417 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote