Rumored AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Cinebench R23 Scores Show up to 28% Performance Gains over the 7000X3D Series

[Riccochet]

I'm not turning my office in to a sauna to find a prime numbers.

 

[Zarathustra]

I'm not turning my office in to a sauna to find a prime numbers.

I'm more concerned about the power bill.

All of these distributed projects always market these things as "no biggie, it's just your idle CPU cycles, use them to do something good", without taking into account the increased electric bill, and impact to emissions it results in.

Like the old Folding at Home project. Would be interesting to see approximately how many respiratory health issues it indirectly resulted in balanced against the good the project has done..

 

[LazyGamer]

I'm less worried about the direct power draw, and more worried about the domestic cooling requirements - and their power bill.

 

[Endgame]

I'm more concerned about the power bill.

All of these distributed projects always market these things as "no biggie, it's just your idle CPU cycles, use them to do something good", without taking into account the increased electric bill, and impact to emissions it results in.

Like the old Folding at Home project. Would be interesting to see approximately how many respiratory health issues it indirectly resulted in balanced against the good the project has done..

I can only speak for myself, but my folding at home setup is a 4070ti Super and a 3080ti. I run different projects off my CPUs (7950, 5950, 16 raspberry pi 4s), and everything is power limited to run at ideal points per watt settings. My home solar covers all my Usage. From a certain point of view, I’m even using the grid as the perfect battery. I put extra juice on the grid during the day, and take some out at night. During summer I put more in than I take out, and during winter I pull from those banked watts.

Cooling wise, everything is in the basement. During the summer, sometimes I’ve been turning off the 3080ti. During the winter I might change the power tuning to generate a little more heat.

 

[Brian_B]

When I had a house with enough solar, I had no problem running F@H or Seti. Especially in the winter. I was happy to do so.

But we moved, lots of trees and mountains, solar is for crap here. Now electricity is expensive again. I try to remember to shut my computer off at night.

Yeah, I can't afford to run the A/C in the summer, sure as heck aren't gonna pay for nerds and aliens too.

 

[LeRoy_Blanchard]

I shut most of my stuff down during the summer, but during the Winter I use the heat to warm up my flat.

I only run them during the Summer during a competition, such as the on-going Primegrid challenge happening right now.

Challenge statistics

and in a few hours an overlapping challenge at https://www.boincgames.com/sprints.php

But during the Winter, I run them the entire time.

There's just something cool about knowing you found a very, very large prime number before anyone else did.

PrimePage Bios: LeRoy Blanchard

Welcome to the Prover Database for the List of Largest Known Primes. These pages contain a collection of records, resources and results all related to prime numbers. This pages contains the prover entry 'LeRoy Blanchard.'

t5k.org

And getting credit for doing so.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

And there we have it.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Has the CCD on Top of the 3D V-cache Die, Not Under it

Much of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D teaser material from AMD had the recurring buzzwords "X3D Reimagined," causing us to speculate what it could be. 9550pro, a reliable source with hardware leaks, says that AMD has redesigned the way the CPU complex die (CCD) and 3D V-cache die (L3D) are stacked...

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Nothing as complicated as I was thinking. They are simply reversing the order of the chips in the stack. 3D-Vacahe (which produces much less heat) goes on the bottom, and hot main Zen5 chip with all of the integer and floating point cores goes on the top. This allows the X3D to have the same clocks as non-X3D variants.

It's a stupid simple solution in a "why didn't we do it this way from the beginning" kind of way. I bet there was a collective "duh" moment when someone thought of it.

@Peter_Brosdahl and/or @Tsing This is probably front page news worthy.

Yep, was already under consideration for Monday. I also saw this one yesterday while doing my Saturday crawl.