I think my 850W Be Quiet Dark Power 13 is not able to keep up with the 6950XT when I try to train a neuralnet it seems
perhaps there are peaks of power usage where the 5900X + mobo + everything else + GPU use more than 850W I guess? or something is wrong somehow?
kind of a pain, it was an expensive power supply that I was hoping would last a while.. maybe I can underclock/undervolt the GPU or something instead?... 850W is kind of a bonkers amount of power draw anyway 🥴
@anthropy gpus can easily draw twice their rated power. AMD had noway of measuring total board power before the 9000 series making the problem worse.
The "correct" solution is overspecing your power supply by a factor of three.
Capping your framerate in the driver/game should be a good enough solution.
@anthropy 340w continues, 680w peak. Assuming no funny business
The overload protection in psu should be about 2x rated power, their does also exist undervolt protection. Gpus slam the power supply hard, peaks of twice rated load in less than a mile seconds. This causes the voltage to drop as the psu can't keep up
Recent NVIDIA gpu is worse. Power supply manufacturers had to change the spec for the 4000 series. The 12 pin is an indicator off those changes being incorporated