Open beta release of the GPU3 core.

[SnW]

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...=14671&start=0

Now let those GTX480's Folding

[p2501]

Nice catch, those are awesome news!!

What I want to see now is GTX480 numbers, later on in comparison to Ati's offerings.

[Sparky]

Nice catch. I wanted it to work on ATI but not yet.. sigh lol. Maybe I'll give it a shot on my GTX260.

[OldChap]

are you guys using the 256 driver?

[FoldingFanatic]

I took two boards of the farm over to the 256 driver and have them running the GPU3 client as well. Have another two boards running the same exact GPU combination with the GPU2 client. In a day or so I will be able to actually see if this gives the 2oo series better #s.

I want to see the 400 series #s myself.

Folding For The Future
EG

[=[PULSAR]=]

Coming over from GPUgrid running a GTX480 800/1600/2000 I'm gettin 16k PPD with the 257.15 drivers, hope everyone enjoys the numbers I forgot how much did 295's get?

[bamtan2]

good results pulsar. I think early gtx480 reviews predicted 12k-16k PPD. so landing on the upper end is good.

[=[PULSAR]=]

After doing some testing looks like there is no difference between the 197.75 and 257.15 drivers as far as F@H is concerned.

EDIT: Looks like the 197.75 drivers are about 500 PPD better.

[OCX600RR]

Wow, very nice numbers there Pulsar! Wonder how the GTX 470 ranks in terms of PPD on this new client. Have you run into any problems folding on the new client?

[INFRNL]

good to start seeing some #'s, but 12-16k does not seem very good for the cost of these cards, but i have been out of the loop for a while. this isn't even double of what a gtx 275 can do if i recall correctly

[OCX600RR]

good to start seeing some #'s, but 12-16k does not seem very good for the cost of these cards, but i have been out of the loop for a while. this isn't even double of what a gtx 275 can do if i recall correctly

During the time I used the 275 for folding, it was crunching anywhere between 7-10k PPD depending on the work unit. 275's can be had for less than $200 nowadays whereas the 480's retail around $500!

[=[PULSAR]=]

Wow, very nice numbers there Pulsar! Wonder how the GTX 470 ranks in terms of PPD on this new client. Have you run into any problems folding on the new client?

No issues yet every WU I have gotten has completed successfully.

[MrMojoZ]

During the time I used the 275 for folding, it was crunching anywhere between 7-10k PPD depending on the work unit. 275's can be had for less than $200 nowadays whereas the 480's retail around $500!

Not even much of the way in power savings. Whats going on here?

[p2501]

Sooo, let's do the math. That estimated 64k PPD for two cards over 2 days if we follow Pulsars example (thanks for posting that btw! ). If numbers I've seen are correct, then GTX480 SLI with an oc'd i7 uses around 800W fully loaded. i7 oc'd to 4.2GHz or more will eat ~300W I guess and does 61k+ PPD on bigadv every two days. So if I add two of these cards to a already running system, I roughly add 500W of power usage for 64k PPD. Then again if I just build another i7 and let it fold on bigadv I add 300W to my overall power consumption for roughly the same output.

Edit: Okay, it seems I need to change the numbers a bit. Found several sources saying that an oc'd i7 is eating more like 350-400W. Sooo, it kinda levels the competition between both a bit. For 100-150W higher power usage over an additional i7 you get 4k PPD more and the possibility of playing games as well with the cards.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Well just so happens I also have a killawatt hooked up to my system i7 @ 4ghz and GTX480 @ 800/1600/2000 pulls an even 500W at full load.

[p2501]

Wow, okay. That is 90W less than my 4.2GHz system when I still had a 295 running.

Anyone with a kill-a-watt running 480 SLI?


Edit: Btw, wasn't GPU3 supposed to be available for GNU/Linux?

Edit 2: I put my Kill-a-Watt in line again and my two i7 (one watercooled 4.2GHz 920 12GB, one air cooled 3,8GHz 860 6GB and one GBit switch) are using 650W. Both are running same volts (had bad luck with my 860) so if I overlook differences in cooling and memory both are drawing 325W. If an SLI system draws 800W we're looking at roughly 500W from the cards, as expected. So a 500W 480 SLI upgrade sort of equals a complete i7 setup in production over 2 days while drawing well over 100W more...

[coo-coo-clocker]

It's about time they released a new core. Good to see they are still actively developing over there...

[=[PULSAR]=]

I think I'm already out of work units, back to gpugrid for now.

[theystolemyname]

I can't really express how disappointed I am that stanford doesn't want science out of my 5870. I think gpu reviews all need to start putting folding@home performance on their first pages to spur amd and nvidia into taking matters into their own hands and developing folding@home cores for their own cards.

[Sparky]

I can't really express how disappointed I am that stanford doesn't want science out of my 5870. I think gpu reviews all need to start putting folding@home performance on their first pages to spur amd and nvidia into taking matters into their own hands and developing folding@home cores for their own cards.

The ATI part is coming, just the nvidia part of GPU3 was ready for public beta first.

I'm looking forward to ATI GPU3, I'm hoping that it'll improve performance on my 4870. I feel like it is underutilized.

[Chumbucket843]

I can't really express how disappointed I am that stanford doesn't want science out of my 5870. I think gpu reviews all need to start putting folding@home performance on their first pages to spur amd and nvidia into taking matters into their own hands and developing folding@home cores for their own cards.

you have been misinformed. stanford has been working with ATi for years. one of the main reasons for gpu3 is so nv and ati gpu's can run the same projects, thus speeding up the science.

they are working with ATi but their opencl compiler is buggy and immature. nvidia's opencl compiler is no better but they have cuda. see how long gpugrid has been waiting for in the 5870 thread. there is nothing anyone outside of AMD that can help.

[sokarul]

My EVGA GTX 470 sure does emit a high pitched noise while folding. Anyone else have that problem? I'm using the 255 driver.

[Polizei]

The ATI part is coming, just the nvidia part of GPU3 was ready for public beta first.

I'm looking forward to ATI GPU3, I'm hoping that it'll improve performance on my 4870. I feel like it is underutilized.

Me coming back to folding is a long time coming, but it won't happen until I get water on my Phenom II X6, seeing as I'm idling at 43c...

This processor is under-utilized unless I'm actually doing something like gaming or solid model rendering.

[Sparky]

What heatsink are you using? 43C just sounds...wrong.

[Polizei]

Xigmatek HDT-S1283. I'm about to dump watercooling for a CPU-only loop on my credit card... even the gf is talking me into it. I'd love to get my GTX260 under water too, but I don't know what to do about the RAM and whatnot, and Swiftech doesn't make that unisink, I'm not buying a full cover, and I don't have enough radiator (2x120mm and 1x120mm).

Got any WC stuff you want to sell for free?