PSA: Folding@Home now supports nVidia & ATI GPUs

[VirtualLarry]

Anyone know the PPD for a 4850?
It has 800 stream processors, so hopefully it scores better than an 8800GT.

 

[leexgx]

very sure its not performing well on the 4850 yet due to an bug in the GPU2 client thay be bringing an update soon i guess

Nvidia you can only use 1 GPU at this time (CUDA)
ATI can use as meny you can fit in your pc (make new short cuts with -gpu 0 1 2 3) i can see this to be very intresting for 4x 4850 but the same can be seen for nvidia with 4000-5000 PPD per GPU (8800GT avg) once thay alow more cards to be used

 

[Foxery]

Radeon 4850 performance is currently a bit poor, but will be fixed soon. Multi-card nVidia support also coming soon. They're cranking out revisions pretty quickly on these, for a change

 

[bryanW1995]

they should be! they could double their production overnight if they can get/keep a bunch of gpu folders!

 

[Assimilator1]

Hey Foxery, question above .

 

[Foxery]

My understanding is that they didn't realize anything was wrong until they tested the same proteins on the newer client, and the results didn't match. I don't know how far off it was, or how often, though. There are so many improvements and speed increases in version 2 that there wasn't any point in letting the old one continue. It's compatible with so many more GPU models that production today is 6X what it was in the spring.

 

[Assimilator1]

Aww man that sucks that the science was even sometimes wrong on the old GPU client , & I still think that they could support X19xx cards on the new client , oh well guess I'll have to wait until I get a new card .

 

[Capt Caveman]

fwiw - just installed the gpu client last night and it works fine using the 175.16 drivers for my 8800GT using Windows XP. I'm also running the 5.03 CPU client

Just downloaded the 175.19 drivers that just came out today. Will install in a little bit.

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
does not support my 6800GS

Due for an upgrade don't you think?

lol probably...but i'm cheap and i just got a 360...so...yeah

 

[bryanW1995]

bump for something to do with all these new gpus...

 

[Foxery]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
bump for something to do with all these new gpus...

There's been an explosion since the nVidia version came out, especially as it was linked on Digg. (I don't recall seeing the ATI one announced there.)

In just the past week, GPU results have skyrocketed from ~2000 people at 130 TeraFLOPS to 7000 people at 800 TeraFLOPs. They're contributing more than every CPU client (on any OS) combined, which come to about 300 TFLOPs. (Source: Stanford Client Stats)

Cancer doesn't stand a chance

Anyhoo, no more shameless bumps, now that all of the new cards are out.