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>Fortunately the slowdown of minGPT training is only ~3% with this setup.

The cards are run at a very unfavorable part of Freq/Voltage curve. Increasing freq. (performance) effectively scales the power in a cubic manner.

[lostmsu → xxs]

To be pedantic 1.03 * 3 is ~1.093, which is much less than 1.4 = 350/250, so the behavior is still quite surprising.