Hi,

Kind of survey to help potential buyers in making a decision.:)

Please provide the full model name to make possible to identify it. I mean not just "EVGA/1080" but EGA/1080 GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 for example.

Any additional comment on your experience with the card: noise, boost, temperature will be of course welcome.

Thanks!

I have switched from MSI to Palit/Gainward as they provide the most efficient and most silent Pascal cards at present.

Review is in German only... sorry:
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07/geforce-gtx-1080-partnerkarten-vergleich-test/

Whatever Palit or Gainward card you choose, they all have huge heat sinks and therefore need a lot of space, one triple slot per GPU. I have one Palit Gamerock GTX 1080 (Non-Premium) which is just a mild OC and runs stable at full load at 66°C ... all around the clock. Product code is NEB1080T15P2-1040G.

The other GPU I have is a Palit Super Jetstream GTX1070 which uses the same cooler but is even more overclocked. Stable and silent too, having said this, it heats up to 70°C which is OK, but noticeably higher than the Gamerock. Product code is NE51070S15P2-1041J

If there is a good offer, you could take the equivalent Gainward too, as they are widely identical. The Phoenix is the mild OC (=equal to the Gamerock/Jetstream) whereas the GS and GLH utilize much higher clock rates (=comparable to the Gamerock Premium and Super Jetstream).
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

I'm using a Gainward GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH (Goes Like Hell) edition card

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Waterforce Xtreme Gaming HDMI 3xDP 8GB
Clock: +50 at 2063MHz
overall very good cooling and good that it cooling it all with water (AIO)
Some noise that could be annoying from water pump but not bad. Temp are good have reach at max 55 Celsius.

https://www.gpugrid.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=194568
http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/3/5919/20160617180225_big.png

Two MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Sea Hawk HDMI 3xDP 8GB
Clock: +90 2063 MHz
AOI and blower do work fine and low noise even with 90% to blower fan, i manage to get same clock as Gigabyte and would be max clock with boinc projects.

https://www.gpugrid.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=195187
https://asset.msi.com/resize/image/global/product/product_5_20160527170716_57480e4441fe3.png62405b38c58fe0f07fcef2367d8a9ba1/600.png

Both get hot backplate so i have attached a separated fan to cool down feed and cool down the card. temp are good at 40-55 at normal work.

Two throw in my two cents. Pascal is generally a good choice because of power efficiency. There is no disastrous board partner design on market, so you cannot do anything wrong with buying a GTX1080. My suggestion is to let purpose, individual preferences and available space decide. See the below review (German only) from Computerbase (comparison of a few air-cooled custom axial designs).

In brief … the reviewed models of Palit, Gainward, Gigabyte and Inno3D have about the same power efficiency. But four “outliers”, the ZOTAC, the ASUS, the MSI and the EVGA.

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-07/geforce-gtx-1080-partnerkarten-vergleich-test/

One outlier to the low end is (to my surprise) the EVGA FTW which needs 20-30W more power than the center span, produces more heat (up to 80°C full load) and is still not very silent or fast. The MSI Gaming X is also somewhat inefficient and even slower than the EVGA, most likely due to the lower clock rates. As a result, the temperatures are slightly better after all. Both the MSI and the EVGA are no bad products … but do not really sound like perfect crunching cards to me. For all I know, EVGA utilizes the genuine Nvidia PCB, whereas ASUS (and some other board partners) modify it or even use own designs. That is a fact you can observe in the reduced power draw.

The Zotac AMP! Extreme seems to be the card if you want to play games and crunch just now and again. It is long, bulky, heavily overclocked and pulls 40W more than the Palit/Gainward but is just slightly faster. Fortunately the heatsinks do a good job, the card is relatively silent. Anyway, that low efficient configuration doesn’t make much sense for crunchers at a first view, having said this, things could look a Little better when you lower the clock of the Zotac. Unlike the MSI, the Zotac has a lot of down-clocking potential.

The ASUS Strix OC is the outlier to the high end, the most power efficient card in the review, a superbly modified ASUS board, low temperatures, at first view it’s the perfect crunching card. But alas … it is somewhat loud. Twice as loud as the winning Palit/Gainward. But probably can be improved by choosing a different fan profile, increasing the operating temperature a little.

From the Computerbase review, the Gigabyte G1 Gaming and Inno3D iChill X3 are well balanced cards with a few weak points. The graph shows that the Gigabyte default configuration is not as power efficient as the ASUS - but a little quieter. The Inno3D on the other hand, performs well, is even less noisy than the Gigabyte, but is a true hothead! (82°C) As it doesn’t have the down-clocking potential of the Zotac, you could only increase the fan speed of the Inno3D, leading to more noise.

Finally, the Palit and Gainward are for people (like me) who run the cards 24/7 and even sleep nearby their machines. They are very fast (2nd place in the review), most silent (33dB) and maintain low temperatures as well. That is something I can confirm and do appreciate. The only real CONs are their bulky heatsinks. So if you don’t have the three slots, the ASUS or Gigabyte would be my next choices.

Well, the above is just a summary of the Computerbase article and therefore not a perfect match to real world conditions. Therefore it would be interesting to read some reviews of owners of the above cards and their experience.
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

... They are very fast, most silent and maintain low temperatures as well. The only real CONs are their bulky heatsinks.

There are no wonders in cooling: the larger the heatsink, the lower the temperature will be at a given power output; therefore two slot cards (with axial fans) will be always louder and / or hotter than 3-slot cards.

About efficiency: an OC card will always be less efficient than a non-OC one. The overall power consumption of the card could be lowered by tweaking its PSU by applying more power phases than the standard, using FETs with lower switching time and Rds(on), using better capacitors.

Lower working temperatures also lower the power consumption by a fraction.

Thanks for the info Retvari and Joerg,

One question more, are you running one or two wus per GPU?

Thanks!

One question more, are you running one or two wus per GPU?

I run two per GTX 1070 or 1080... but that is a habit from Poem in order to utilize the GPU to >90% making sure it gets sufficient CPU support per task. It worked perfectly there, however I did not manage yet with GPUGRID neither with short nor with long runs.

Zoltan, what utilization do you have on your 980ti? Do you observe any load oscillations?
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

Zoltan, what utilization do you have on your 980ti? Do you observe any load oscillations?

Strange. My 1070 does not get better than 90% and the 1080 is even worse, maybe 75%. No matter how many tasks and the CPU/GPU ratio. As if the algorithm is not yet Pascal optimized.

But this gets off topic a little... maybe I should bring that question forward somewhere else.
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

Strange. My 1070 does not get better than 90% and the 1080 is even worse, maybe 75%. No matter how many tasks and the CPU/GPU ratio. As if the algorithm is not yet Pascal optimized.

But this gets off topic a little... maybe I should bring that question forward somewhere else.

Back on Topic. Unless I am mistaken, Trotadors question was which Pascal card(s) do we use ... but he did not specifically ask for a 1080. From price and price/performance ratio I assume that the 1060 6G and 1070 8G will be more popular anyway in the long term.

As I wrote, my Palit Super Jetstream GTX1070 performs very well compared with my 1080 which suffers from low utilization. We still do not know exactly why this is the case and how to improve that. See

https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4413

Are there any other crunchers who can comment on their experience with 1070, 1060 or even 1050ti cards? In theory the smaller cards should have a relatively good utilization. Comments welcome.
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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

I installed an MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G just a week ago.

The PC(Win10x64) runs one WU of GPUGRID and a couple of atlas@Home WU's. The card never gets any hotter than 60-65° C and the cooler is so silent I can't even hear it (666rpm usually). The load on the card typically hovers around 60%. Power draw according to hwinfo is 63W.

As for performance, GPUGRID doesn't really offer any good insight into that, or I haven't found it. But I can tell you it's a whole lot faster than my GTX760 :).

Overall: heartily recommended.

The load on the card typically hovers around 60%. Power draw according to hwinfo is 63W.

ASUS GeForce STRIX-GTX 1060-6G-GAMING

PROS:
It has a huge 3 fan cooler for a 120W card. It's whisper silent. In a colder room, the fans turn off even during full load. At 22C ambient the card runs at 54C, fan speed is 28%.

This is the only GPU I can run next to me without the noise bothering me.

Build quality is very good, if you like flashy leds the design is unbeatable.

CONS:
I overpaid a LOT for this card (400$ in Hungary). A cheaper 1060 3G can be had for half this price. I could have bought a 1070 with just a bit more cash.

I use the 375.70 driver, folding@home is broken, but GPUGRID runs like a dream!

Points/day is around 400.000, utilization is 88-92%.

FWIW my 1060 runs @ 95% with 2 tasks at a time at stock settings. What's truly amazing is that according to my UPS it's only pulling 45 watts.

ASUS GeForce STRIX-GTX 1060-6G-GAMING

Points/day is around 400.000, utilization is 88-92%.

I've finally purchased a Gainward Phoenix GLH as Retvari. I've installed it in an ubuntu 16.04.1 host substituting a 750Ti with a dual e5 2690 v1 CPU configuration (boost 3.3 GHz). I've left two threads unused out of 32 to make GPU crunching smoother, rest left cruching WCG now.

So far the card uses to boost to around 2 GHz if card temperature is below 60ºC, which does not occur with the default fan profile setting. Set coolbits=12 to get only fan control, now set about 65%, driver 367.57 does not allow overclocking.

Maximum GPU clock I've seen is 2042Mhz with a temperature of 40ºC. NVIDIA control panel shows the card in Performance Level 2 that puts the memory in 9524MHz, below default setting I think.

The average ppd seems to be around 950Kppd except the 63750 points wu that gives much less.

A co-worker got me into compute crunching after I splurged on a Titan X Pascal, pretty cool stuff.

The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. I Macgyver'd a closed-loop watercooler onto it, so clock speeds stay well into the upper 1800 MHz's and temps hover around 50C. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

I am running

(2)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-6288-KR

and (2)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 8GB GDDR5, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-6278-KR

Both units are plug and play hybrid cooling, they run ~ 40-45 degrees under full load.

I see the best results running 2 work units per card under GPUGRID.

A co-worker got me into compute crunching after I splurged on a Titan X Pascal, pretty cool stuff.

The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. I Macgyver'd a closed-loop watercooler onto it, so clock speeds stay well into the upper 1800 MHz's and temps hover around 50C. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

Make sure those VRMs and MOSFETs are cool, those are the things that kill the card typically if left hot. Also make sure the ram chips are cool

... on a Titan X Pascal ... The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

... on a Titan X Pascal ... The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

Well, these BNBS WU's are the most GPU utilizing tasks here at GPUGrid (I see 99% GPU usage on my GTX980Tis under Windows XP & SWAN_SYNC). You can optimize your system to such high-end card by applying the SWAN_SYNC environmental value to make the GPUGrid app to use a full CPU thread to feed the GPU. It is also recommended to crunch CPU tasks only on one CPU thread, or not crunch CPU tasks at all.

To apply the swan_sync environmental value:
Copy systempropertiesadvanced to your clipboard
Click on the Start button, paste and press [enter].
Click on [Environmental Variables]
Look for the lower section called "System Variables", click on the [New] button below the list of System Variables.
Type swan_sync in the name field
Type 1 in the Value field
Click [OK] 3 times.
Exit BOINC manager with stopping scientific applications.
Start BOINC manager.

Zoltan, how did windows XP work with your gtx 1080?

[To apply the swan_sync environmental value]

[To apply the swan_sync environmental value]

Awesome, thanks for the tip. Saw a ~10% increase with that.

One issue though, it seems the app won't use a full thread, at least not consistently. It'll very occasionally (for .5 secs every 2 mins. or so) spike to 91% on a single thread, but it hovers at 20-40% across ALL cores the vast majority of the time.

Not sure if it's related, but my GPU still isn't fully utilized at 90% (although it is more so than before).

How would I get it to run full-speed on one thread?

Have few weeks GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition. I started testing gpugrid apps.. first ADRIA_FOLDGREED90_crystal_ss_contacts_100_ubiquitin_
Crystal_SS_ 8.88 timestamp 1080 ti looks very interesting..))

Been running my Titan X for a couple of nights now and am a little surprised it's been up to 1.8GHz when it boosts. Pretty impressive for the blower cooler on such a massive chip.

Haven't seen too many WUs crunched within the 5 - 7hrs timeframe yet, but at least it's contributing to scientific achievements.

Just replaced two Maxwell EVGA Titan X Hybrids with two EVGA 1080Ti SC + Hybrid kits. Works like a charm. The PC is in a closet, yet the GPUs don't exceed 50C for GPUGRID and 70C for PrimeGrid CUDA apps. Using 382.05 drivers.

Speaking of which, there is a significant usage difference between GPUGRID and PrimeGrid. I have my cards set to 120% max clock and 85C max temp (using MSIAfterBurner), whichever comes first, and turns out, they are not the limiting factor.

In the few workunits I was able to watch with MSIAfterBurner displaying what is going on, GPUGRID is at about 65-75% GPU usage, at about 1920-1940Mhz, with 68-72% of power, temps at 45-55C. I am using swan_sync, by the way. Currently running tasks are:

e95s25_e87s22p0f184-PABLO_Q15004_0_IDP-0-1-RND4080
e71s59_e51s11p0f22-PABLO_P01106_0_IDP-0-1-RND9004

But PrimeGrid consistently occupies the GPUs at about 96-99% GPU usage, at about 1925-1950Mhz, with 110-115% of power, temps at 65-70C. In other words, PrimeGrid is getting much more bang for my buck...

Should someone know about this at GPUGRID? Or is there a better forum to post this at?

Tuna

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I see the best results running 2 work units per card under GPUGRID.

You can find it here.

You can find it here.

Just added an EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3. The host is here.

Very happy with it so far.

I was previously running an EVGA GTX 1080 SC in that box but moved it to this host. The CPU is a slightly slower and I think my run times have consequently gotten a little longer.