Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b...
by theevilsharpie on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:09PM
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> Would you buy a GPU that you could safely run Furmark on 24/7 if it was limited to, half or 3/4 of the clocks?
Given that modern GPUs have complex frequency scaling algorithms that take temperature and power usage into account when setting clock speed, there's a good chance that a modern GPU will do exactly that.
> Modern power management is smart enough to figure out when you're running a power virus and it will downclock to those safe levels, while us normies can get competitive clocks when running our real-world code.
Which is perfectly fine, as long as the clock speed behavior is disclosed (which it is).
What isn't fine is a product running at such a high speed from the factory that running certain workloads damages it.
Given that modern GPUs have complex frequency scaling algorithms that take temperature and power usage into account when setting clock speed, there's a good chance that a modern GPU will do exactly that.
> Modern power management is smart enough to figure out when you're running a power virus and it will downclock to those safe levels, while us normies can get competitive clocks when running our real-world code.
Which is perfectly fine, as long as the clock speed behavior is disclosed (which it is).
What isn't fine is a product running at such a high speed from the factory that running certain workloads damages it.