Hi everyone, I was considering purchasing 2 8gb nvidia cards. My pc has a maximum of 2 PCI express inputs (of which only one is 16X). Then I asked myself this question that I turn to you. If I buy a mining structure and dedicated power supply and buy, let's say 5 cards used ex mining from 1 year ago of 4gb each, I probably spend the same amount but I can add as many cards as I want at low cost. The only thing I wonder is how to make faceswap "see" these external cards since I don't have Thunderbolt but only USB 3. Do you think it is feasible?
Rig ex mining?
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Re: Rig ex mining?
The problem with mining systems is they severely limit the bandwidth to the card. For mining that's fine, but AI cares a lot more about the bandwidth and you'll find your cards bottlenecked if you do that.
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Hi thanks for the answer: I had written other questions on other topics but they have not been published. Strange...
Anyway, I don't want to use an ex mining system but I was just thinking of buying 4 / 8gb nvidia cards that were used to mine and now they are no longer suitable (every 18 months they have to change them). It was a way to have an external, scalable and inexpensive system. Am I wrong?
My gol is to reduce from 50H (i use R9 270x 4GB) to 12H, training time. Scalable solution i like because i can add all GPU i want. I want to create a local gpu "cluster".
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Most CPUs only have a limited number of PCI-E lanes. Any less than 8 lanes per card and you're seriously limiting the card's effectiveness. Unless you have a Threadripper, 2 cards is about the maximum you can use in most systems. That said, a single Nvidia GPU will easily cut your time by that amount (50hrs on an AMD is about the same as 12 on an Nvidia).
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Great, thank you so much. I will change my card with nVIDIA RTX 2060 Super. I hope i can donw time from 50h to 12h.
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I have 2 interessant offers.
Gigabyte GeForce nVidia GTX 1080 TI 11GB OC Gaming (used). 450Euro
KFA2 nvidia RTX 2060 super 8gb (used). 300Euro
What you think?
Re: Rig ex mining?
Someone posted this, unsure how valid the results are . If you are looking to buy for FS you could gauge your purchases>
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/R ... tiveCharts
I've tried to use cards connected by pcie 1x . Not great.
They seem usable as individuals, but using them together in parallel processing is all but useless.
If one card is 100%, 2 cards, where one is pcie 1x is like 40% of the single card.
I dunno what I'm doing
2X RTX 3090 : RTX 3080 : RTX: 2060 : 2x RTX 2080 Super : Ghetto 1060
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Its all your choice.
FS now has RTX support and having more than 6GB vram is the best.
I just 'benchmarked' my cards after reading your post.
With the current model I'm running a 2070 is 2.5x a single 1070.
Top one is 1070
I dunno what I'm doing
2X RTX 3090 : RTX 3080 : RTX: 2060 : 2x RTX 2080 Super : Ghetto 1060
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I'm confused, my option are from GTX 1080TI 11gb(450Eur) and RTX 2060 8gb (300Eur)
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Re: Rig ex mining?
In my test with my R9 270X 4gb i have best result usign batch size = 48
Model: original
bs 16 = eg/s 22.5
bs 32 = 24.9
bs 48 = 28.5
bs 65 = 26
bs 74 = 23
bs 75 crash
Why you have so low Eg/s rate?
Re: Rig ex mining?
Im not going to tell you what you should buy
My Egs is different because Im running a different model, different settings villian .
I dunno what I'm doing
2X RTX 3090 : RTX 3080 : RTX: 2060 : 2x RTX 2080 Super : Ghetto 1060