GPU Folding question

[NedClocker]

Is there some new development in GPU folding that I have missed? When I was doing it, I was only getting about 600 ppd from my card and it was considered to be less economical - in ppd - than a quad core.

Now, people are getting 20,000 ppd out of 3 rigs by gpu folding?

Or 20,000 out of ONE rig by gpu folding?

WTF!!! :burn:

[torin3]

Is there some new development in GPU folding that I have missed? When I was doing it, I was only getting about 600 ppd from my card and it was considered to be less economical - in ppd - than a quad core.

Now, people are getting 20,000 ppd out of 3 rigs by gpu folding?

Or 20,000 out of ONE rig by gpu folding?

WTF!!! :burn:

Yep, the GPU2 client came out. Works for Nvidia and ATI cards. The Nvidia cards are currently getting more PPD/$ with some cards turning out nearly 9K PPD. The best bang for the buck right now seems to be the 8800GS cards with almost 5K PPD for under $100.

I'm getting almost 13K PPD from my work rig. 2 8800 GT cards and a quad core with 2 Windows SMP clients running on a quad core.

I'm not sure which ATI cards fold, but the G80 cards and above all work (8xxx series)

Joint the fun if you have one or more. 8400 gs cards only kick out about 500 PPD though.

[hafaphoto]

GPU folding is just stupid fast! I get around 4-5k PPD on 8800GT's depending on how much I can overclock them. My ATI 3870 X2 only gets around 2k PPD. I don't think there is a way to use both cores on it yet.

If you want points, you just need a few GPU's running.

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[Surfpunk]

Any 2xxx or 3xxx ATI cards can fold too. Right now you won't get nearly the points as a nVidia card but that is changing...

[NedClocker]

How will an X1950 PRO with 512 meg do?

[hafaphoto]

I think you need something a little newer. http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

Hopefully I am wrong.

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[Sleepy_Steve]

Nah, I think Hafaphoto is right... you need a 2xxxx card from ati to use the new GPU2 client, otherwise were still stuck with GPU1 which isn't really worth devoting a core of a proc to any more.

And even if we were able to fold with the ATI 19xx cards... the lack of a billion+ shader pipes makes it not nearly as awesome for ppd as the 8xxx and up nVidia cards are.

[ChasR]

There is no GPU1 anymore. It was discontinued several months ago.