My new Radeon VII

in #boinc5 years ago (edited)

Last week @remotehorst23 and I started working on a video for the @eosracing team in which I participate. While @remotehorst23 does the complete scene design and animation, I wanted to support him in rendering single scenes and the whole animation. In addition, I've been itching to send a high-performance graphics card to use at BOINC for some time now. So last Saturday I took the chance at mindfactory.de and bought the Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G from Asrock for 699 €. On Tuesday the good piece arrived and was installed directly.

Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G package


Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G perspective view


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In the evening the first tests took place at the rendering in Blender. Unfortunately, the graphics card is exactly there, currently behind my expectations. Apparently the drivers are not optimal yet. I hope that this will change soon.

Fortunately, there's another area of application where I can really challenge the card. I haven't had WUs calculated by BOINC on the graphics card for almost a year now. Since Tuesday the time has come again. Because there were already questions in the forum of rechenkraft.net regarding the card, I will try to calculate the required projects on the card and also vary the graphics card settings.

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Deutsche Fassung:
Letzte Woche haben @remotehorst23 und ich damit begonnen ein Video für das @eosracing Team, welchem ich aktiv bin, zu erstellen. Da @remotehorst23 alle Szenendarstellungen und die Animation erstellt, wollte ich ihn damit unterstützen einzelne Szenen und die ganze Animation zu rendern. Zudem juckt es mich schon etwas länger wieder einen performante Grafikkarte bei BOINC zu nutzen. Also nutzte ich letzten Samstag die Chance und kaufte auf mindfactory.de die Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G von Asrock für 699 €. Am Dienstag erreichte mich das gute Stück und wurde direkt eingebaut.

Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G package


Phantom Gaming X Radeon VII 16G perspective view


20190319_121328.jpg

Am Abend erfolgten die ersten Tests mit Rendern in Blender. Leider bleibt die Grafikkarte genau dabei noch hinter meinen Erwartungen zurück. Die Treiber sind derzeit noch nicht optimal. Ich hoffe, dass wird sich bald ändern.

Glücklicherweise gibt es noch einen weiteren Anwendungsbereich, in dem ich die Karte wirklich herausfordern kann. Ich habe seit fast einem Jahr keine WUs mehr von BOINC auf der Grafikkarte berechnen lassen. Seit Dienstag ist es wieder soweit. Weil es bereits Fragen im Forum von rechenkraft.net zur Karte gab, werde ich versuchen, die benötigten Projekte auf der Karte zu berechnen und auch die Einstellungen der Grafikkarte zu variieren.

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Nice. I am interested to hear how it runs on various BOINC projects.

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You do know yoyo@home is a cpu only project right? http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php
Consider Collatz / Amicable Numberx or GPUGrid or moo, people talk many things in forum's so best to check the apps page.
Also I'm confused you said " send " , so are you not running boinc youself on your hardware and it's running at a school or business on someone else's hardware?

I don't see that I wrote something about yoyo@home. I'm running Einstein@home on this card at the moment. BOINC is running on my own computers and the hardware is bought by my own.

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