What surprised me was the CPU memory bandwidth: the APU should be using the same GDDR6 memory (unique on a CPU) with roughly 350 GB/s of bandwidth, yet I measured only about 30 GB/s, which is worse than a DDR4-based system. What could be the reason?
So we are thinking (my team and I) of buying some of these for use on BOINC. BOINC is a distributed computing software that does "science" research for different projects. Most of these projects are CPU based. Anyway you'd be willing to run some tests on some of these projects for us?
I tested it and it technically works fine, but most BOINC applications rely heavily on the FPU, which makes it a poor choice, and RDNA 2 GPUs are also inefficient for most projects that favor NVIDIA.
What surprised me was the CPU memory bandwidth: the APU should be using the same GDDR6 memory (unique on a CPU) with roughly 350 GB/s of bandwidth, yet I measured only about 30 GB/s, which is worse than a DDR4-based system. What could be the reason?
So we are thinking (my team and I) of buying some of these for use on BOINC. BOINC is a distributed computing software that does "science" research for different projects. Most of these projects are CPU based. Anyway you'd be willing to run some tests on some of these projects for us?
I tested it and it technically works fine, but most BOINC applications rely heavily on the FPU, which makes it a poor choice, and RDNA 2 GPUs are also inefficient for most projects that favor NVIDIA.