Molecular Dynamics

NVIDIA Ampere GPU Benchmarks for AMBER 20

April 27, 2022
11 min read
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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmarks for Molecular Dynamics: RTX A4000 vs RTX A4500 vs RTX A5000 vs NVIDIA A10 vs RTX 3090 vs RTX 3080 vs A100 vs RTX 6000 vs RTX 2080 Ti


Updated Benchmarks for New Verison AMBER 22 here.


**04/27/2022 UPDATED**

The following Amber 20 Benchmarks were performed on an Exxact AMBER Certified MD System using the following GPUs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA A100 (PCIe), NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, NVIDIA RTX A5000, RTX A4000, NVIDIA A10 and RTX A4500 using the AMBER 20 Benchmark Suite.

All benchmarks were performed using a single GPU configuration using Amber 20 Update 6 & AmberTools 20 Update 9. NVIDIA CUDA 11.2 was also used for these benchmarks.

Quick AMBER GPU Benchmark takeaways

    • Ampere GPUs (RTX 3090, RTX 3080 & A100) outperformed all Turing models (2080 Ti & RTX 6000) across the board. The A5000 seem to outperform the 2080 Ti while competing alongside the RTX 6000.
    • For the larger simulations, such as STMV Production NPT 4fs, the A100 outperformed all others. It's here that the RTX A5000 did slightly better than the RTX 6000.
    • For smaller simulations the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 showed excellent performance, and in some cases on par with the A100.
    • The A4000 performed closely to the RTX 3070 but that was to be expected
    • The A4500s looks to perform well. By comparison its roughly equivalent to the 3070, as expected. A tiny bit slower for small systems but faster for larger systems

Interested in getting faster results?
Learn more about the only AMBER Certified GPU Systems starting around $6,000


Exxact Workstation System Specs:

Make / ModelSupermicro AS -4124GS-TN
Nodes1
Processor / Count2x AMD EPYC 7552
Total Logical Cores48
MemoryDDR4 512 GB
StorageNVMe 3.84 TB
OSCentos 7
CUDA Version11.2
Amber

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GPU Benchmark Overview

BenchmarkRTX A6000RTX A5000RTX A4500RTX A4000A100 PCIeA10RTX 3090RTX 3080RTX 3070RTX 2080TIRTX 6000
JAC Production NVE 4fs1101.291008.05935.338101199.22895.051196.51101.24950.17970.511034.88
JAC Production NPT 4fs1084.37992.14911.08803.021194.5886.041157.761086.21930.3940.611004.03
JAC Production NVE 2fs586.09535.01491.62429.67611.08470.51632.19585.81502.13510.21540.17
JAC Production NPT 2fs560.05505.58469.85412.73610.09455.36595.28557.6479.15488.36515.86
FactorIX Production NVE 2fs256.1214.13189.02154.45271.36185.45264.78234.58179.07205.92217.25
FactorIX Production NPT 2fs241.63206.78181.35150.12252.87180.45248.65217.5170.09189.99206
Cellulose Production NVE 2fs59.5247.0941.2631.2685.2338.4563.2353.4437.4143.8947.41
Cellulose Production NPT 2fs55.545.7139.4830.3477.9836.7258.349.6935.7540.7745.24
STMV Production NPT 4fs37.0130.8726.6720.2752.0224.2438.6532.1823.8925.2128.49
TRPCage GB 2fs1166.261235.491188.031244.751040.611096.591225.531332.271375.351151.741189.25
Myoglobin GB 2fs650.48586.42518.8492.48661.22584.93621.73619.67539.21505.93600.83
Nucleosome GB 2fs20.3715.613.4711.0229.6614.4921.0817.7212.7615.2216.81


AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NVE 4fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NPT 4fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NVE 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NPT 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: FactorIX Production NVE and NPT 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: Cellulose Production NVE 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: Cellulose Production NPT 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: STMV Production NPT 4fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: TRPCage GB 2fs

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AMBER GPU Benchmark: Myoglobin GB 2fs

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AMBER GPU Benchmark: Nucleosome GB 2fs

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Note about AMBER 20 Benchmarks (From Dave Cerutti)

We take as benchmarks four periodic systems spanning a range of system sizes and compositions. The smallest Dihydrofolate Reductase (DHFR) case is a 159-residue protein in water, weighing in at 23,588 atoms. Next, from the human blood clotting system, Factor IX is a 379-residue protein also in a box of water, total 90,906 atoms. The larger cellulose system, 408,609 atoms, has a greater content of macromolecules in it: the repeating sugar polymer constitutes roughly a sixth of the atoms in the system. Finally, the very large simulation of satellite tobacco mosaic virus (STMV), a gargantuan 1,067,095 atom system, also has an appreciable macromolecule content, but is otherwise another collection of proteins in water. (source http://ambermd.org/GPUPerformance.php)

What is AMBER Molecular Dynamics Package?

If you’re not familiar with AMBER it refers to ‘Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement‘, a family of force fields for molecular dynamics of biomolecules originally developed by Peter Kollman’s group at the University of California, San Francisco. AMBER is also the name for the molecular dynamics software package that simulates these force fields, and is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Adrian Roitberg at University of Florida, Ken Merz at Michigan State University, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.


Have any questions?
Contact Exxact Today


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Molecular Dynamics

NVIDIA Ampere GPU Benchmarks for AMBER 20

April 27, 202211 min read

AMBER 20 GPU Benchmarks for Molecular Dynamics: RTX A4000 vs RTX A4500 vs RTX A5000 vs NVIDIA A10 vs RTX 3090 vs RTX 3080 vs A100 vs RTX 6000 vs RTX 2080 Ti


Updated Benchmarks for New Verison AMBER 22 here.


**04/27/2022 UPDATED**

The following Amber 20 Benchmarks were performed on an Exxact AMBER Certified MD System using the following GPUs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA A100 (PCIe), NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, NVIDIA RTX A5000, RTX A4000, NVIDIA A10 and RTX A4500 using the AMBER 20 Benchmark Suite.

All benchmarks were performed using a single GPU configuration using Amber 20 Update 6 & AmberTools 20 Update 9. NVIDIA CUDA 11.2 was also used for these benchmarks.

Quick AMBER GPU Benchmark takeaways

    • Ampere GPUs (RTX 3090, RTX 3080 & A100) outperformed all Turing models (2080 Ti & RTX 6000) across the board. The A5000 seem to outperform the 2080 Ti while competing alongside the RTX 6000.
    • For the larger simulations, such as STMV Production NPT 4fs, the A100 outperformed all others. It's here that the RTX A5000 did slightly better than the RTX 6000.
    • For smaller simulations the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 showed excellent performance, and in some cases on par with the A100.
    • The A4000 performed closely to the RTX 3070 but that was to be expected
    • The A4500s looks to perform well. By comparison its roughly equivalent to the 3070, as expected. A tiny bit slower for small systems but faster for larger systems

Interested in getting faster results?
Learn more about the only AMBER Certified GPU Systems starting around $6,000


Exxact Workstation System Specs:

Make / ModelSupermicro AS -4124GS-TN
Nodes1
Processor / Count2x AMD EPYC 7552
Total Logical Cores48
MemoryDDR4 512 GB
StorageNVMe 3.84 TB
OSCentos 7
CUDA Version11.2
Amber

20

GPU Benchmark Overview

BenchmarkRTX A6000RTX A5000RTX A4500RTX A4000A100 PCIeA10RTX 3090RTX 3080RTX 3070RTX 2080TIRTX 6000
JAC Production NVE 4fs1101.291008.05935.338101199.22895.051196.51101.24950.17970.511034.88
JAC Production NPT 4fs1084.37992.14911.08803.021194.5886.041157.761086.21930.3940.611004.03
JAC Production NVE 2fs586.09535.01491.62429.67611.08470.51632.19585.81502.13510.21540.17
JAC Production NPT 2fs560.05505.58469.85412.73610.09455.36595.28557.6479.15488.36515.86
FactorIX Production NVE 2fs256.1214.13189.02154.45271.36185.45264.78234.58179.07205.92217.25
FactorIX Production NPT 2fs241.63206.78181.35150.12252.87180.45248.65217.5170.09189.99206
Cellulose Production NVE 2fs59.5247.0941.2631.2685.2338.4563.2353.4437.4143.8947.41
Cellulose Production NPT 2fs55.545.7139.4830.3477.9836.7258.349.6935.7540.7745.24
STMV Production NPT 4fs37.0130.8726.6720.2752.0224.2438.6532.1823.8925.2128.49
TRPCage GB 2fs1166.261235.491188.031244.751040.611096.591225.531332.271375.351151.741189.25
Myoglobin GB 2fs650.48586.42518.8492.48661.22584.93621.73619.67539.21505.93600.83
Nucleosome GB 2fs20.3715.613.4711.0229.6614.4921.0817.7212.7615.2216.81


AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NVE 4fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NPT 4fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NVE 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: JAC Production NPT 2fs

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AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: FactorIX Production NVE and NPT 2fs

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FACTORIX_PRODUCTION_NPT_2FS.png

AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: Cellulose Production NVE 2fs

CELLULOSE_PRODUCTION_NVE_2FS.png

AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: Cellulose Production NPT 2fs

CELLULOSE_PRODUCTION_NPT_2FS.png

AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: STMV Production NPT 4fs

STMV_PRODUCTION_NPT_4FS.png

AMBER 20 GPU Benchmark: TRPCage GB 2fs

TRPCAGE_GB_2FS.png

AMBER GPU Benchmark: Myoglobin GB 2fs

MYOGLOBIN_GB_2FS.png

AMBER GPU Benchmark: Nucleosome GB 2fs

NUCLEOSOME_GB_2FS.png

Note about AMBER 20 Benchmarks (From Dave Cerutti)

We take as benchmarks four periodic systems spanning a range of system sizes and compositions. The smallest Dihydrofolate Reductase (DHFR) case is a 159-residue protein in water, weighing in at 23,588 atoms. Next, from the human blood clotting system, Factor IX is a 379-residue protein also in a box of water, total 90,906 atoms. The larger cellulose system, 408,609 atoms, has a greater content of macromolecules in it: the repeating sugar polymer constitutes roughly a sixth of the atoms in the system. Finally, the very large simulation of satellite tobacco mosaic virus (STMV), a gargantuan 1,067,095 atom system, also has an appreciable macromolecule content, but is otherwise another collection of proteins in water. (source http://ambermd.org/GPUPerformance.php)

What is AMBER Molecular Dynamics Package?

If you’re not familiar with AMBER it refers to ‘Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement‘, a family of force fields for molecular dynamics of biomolecules originally developed by Peter Kollman’s group at the University of California, San Francisco. AMBER is also the name for the molecular dynamics software package that simulates these force fields, and is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Adrian Roitberg at University of Florida, Ken Merz at Michigan State University, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.


Have any questions?
Contact Exxact Today