Invidia Drivers effect Folding preformance?

[Flamethrower1972]

I was just thinking when you update you GPU driver can that effect your F@H app??

 

[EarthDog]

You mean, does it raise/lower your PPD? It can, yes.

The problem with 'finding the best one' is that, I don't think there's a way to know what's 'best' because testing the same WUs over the same time is impossible. So, you may see 'improvement' but what if it's the WUs and not the driver?

 

[Flamethrower1972]

You mean, does it raise/lower your PPD? It can, yes.

The problem with 'finding the best one' is that, I don't think there's a way to know what's 'best' because testing the same WUs over the same time is impossible. So, you may see 'improvement' but what if it's the WUs and not the driver?

Thank you that good to know Maby if I watch the WU'S when the new driver installs, I can keep a netbook of the points and the name of the WU. If that makes sense.

 

[EarthDog]

Thank you that good to know Maby if I watch the WU'S when the new driver installs, I can keep a netbook of the points and the name of the WU. If that makes sense.

You could do that, but I wonder if there's a more fool proof way to get the WU's for a given period than trying to manually record them.

 

[Flamethrower1972]

You could do that, but I wonder if there's a more fool proof way to get the WU's for a given period than trying to manually record them.

What would you try?

 

[EarthDog]

What would you try?

I wouldn't spend time on this. Bigger fish to fry to gain more PPD, I'd imagine.

But as inferred, I'd look to see if there's a log that stores WUs/time it took/PPD and compare them. I just don't know if that exists.

 

[Flamethrower1972]

I wouldn't spend time on this. Bigger fish to fry to gain more PPD, I'd imagine.

But as inferred, I'd look to see if there's a log that stores WUs/time it took/PPD and compare them. I just don't know if that exists.

When you mean bigger fish to fry and don't say Linux. What are they and can I download any of them?

 

[JLK03F150]

Every now & then a new driver will bork F@H. It hasn't happened in a while though. Word spread quickly & everyone just rolled back to an older version. I seem to remember it taking a couple updates before nvidia fixed the problem, there were about 3 driver releases we had to skip. Otherwise the newest driver for our cards is probably best because we use the PCs for F@H and other tasks.

 

[Flamethrower1972]

Every now & then a new driver will bork F@H. It hasn't happened in a while though. Word spread quickly & everyone just rolled back to an older version. I seem to remember it taking a couple updates before nvidia fixed the problem, there were about 3 driver releases we had to skip. Otherwise the newest driver for our cards is probably best because we use the PCs for F@H and other tasks.

Thank you for the information.

 

[don256us]

Every now & then a new driver will bork F@H. It hasn't happened in a while though. Word spread quickly & everyone just rolled back to an older version. I seem to remember it taking a couple updates before nvidia fixed the problem, there were about 3 driver releases we had to skip. Otherwise the newest driver for our cards is probably best because we use the PCs for F@H and other tasks.

Exactly. NVIDIA has really done some work to make their drivers work for F@H and is perhaps a main reason why they produce better than AMD GPUs. AMD had been partners with F@H in the past but they have let it go. Hence, GPU talk in the F@H community is almost all NVIDIA. AMD cards do produce but I think that the ppd/$ win goes to NVIDIA.

If you're not folding, AMD cards can be very competitive with NVIDIA but if you are folding, NVIDIA is the best bang for your buck. So while drivers may negatively impact production, NVIDIA is our best bet.

 

[dfonda]

Rule of thumb in regards to fah, do not upgrade drivers unless you have to. If it ain't broke don't fix it.