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  • Folding@Home Performance Is Looking Good On The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

    Phoronix: Folding@Home Performance Is Looking Good On The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

    Yesterday I published a number of CUDA and OpenCL benchmarks for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card that happened to show the very strong GPU compote potential for this new Turing GPU. Another workload with promising potential for this powerful but pricey graphics card is Folding@Home...

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    What about the performance per watt per dollar perspective? I guess the 2080 Ti wouldn't do so well in this metric. Also the generational jump was bigger from the 980 Ti to the 1080 Ti than from the 1080 Ti to the 2080 Ti if I am not mistaken. So what is there besides absolute performance to be excited about?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by bofh80
      Any Ray Tracing benches to be had? Seems like Unity3d will finally release the radeon rays in the latest beta, will be interesting to compare that to what RTX does (feature wise). But no other games/engines seem to have bothered with the RR. Seems useful for the rest of us.
      Not aware of any Linux native software currently supporting RTX, benchmark or not...
      Michael Larabel
      https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Michael View Post
        Not aware of any Linux native software currently supporting RTX, benchmark or not...
        LOL, there aren't even any Windows applications.

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        • #5
          I am afraid miners are going to like this...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Dedale View Post
            I am afraid miners are going to like this...
            Meh, miners tend to prefer cost-effective cards

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            • #7
              Originally posted by fuzz View Post

              Meh, miners tend to prefer cost-effective cards
              Yup, performance per dollar is king in mining. This is where AMD consistently beats intel/nvidia. Miners are looking for value, whereas gamers are willing to spend nonsensical amounts of money for +2 fps in their favourite game.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ms178 View Post
                So what is there besides absolute performance to be excited about?
                Performance is perhaps the least exciting thing about the 2000 series. This is a bet on the future with the likes of ray tracing and deep learning AA with DLSS. Though these technologies have come out the gate being highly proprietary and are unlikely to be of interest to Linux users for a long time.

                It seems to be very Physx-like in the support model in that developers need to be enticed into using it, it's currently vendor-specific and there's few consumers with deep enough pockets to target. So you're only going to get it on big engines like Frostbite and Unreal 4. The former has no Linux titles, and the latter hasn't made waves in Linux despite being a supported platform.

                But like Physx, I'd expect the principle to make its way into the mainstream eventually. And once it's hit a critical mass in like five years or something it'll be relevant rather than the niche that it's likely to be in the short term.

                For now, I think Linux users can disregard it as Nvidia bs and wait until it's in Vulkan, supported by AMD and viable in Linux. If the technologies stay proprietary indefinitely then I can't see them going anywhere.

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                • #9
                  People are forgetting that the pure compute performance is not even where the performance improvements are stopping. AFAIK software like Blender will have RTX integrated, which means excellent rendering performance for cheap (compared to dedicated hardware anyway).

                  For games indeed the 2080ti is not so impressive, but the pure compute performance is absolutely crazy.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by torsionbar28 View Post

                    Yup, performance per dollar is king in mining. This is where AMD consistently beats intel/nvidia. Miners are looking for value, whereas gamers are willing to spend nonsensical amounts of money for +2 fps in their favourite game.
                    Miners don't care about AMD, Intel or Nvidia. The market has evolved to run on ASICs now.

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