A Fermi benchmark of sorts...

[Talonman]

It's possible he's telling the truth, but again, you can't compare GPU2 to GPU3 results. Apples and oranges. e.g. What if a G92 produced 20K PPD on GPU3? Who knows? Even fahman says in his original post GPU3 is more efficient... It's like comparing 3dmark03 to 3dmark vantage and trying to measure "points" between them. You need consistency and the same methodology for a "benchmark."

I can't speak to that. My real interest was Fermi, not the BETA client. My gut tells me the BETA GPU folding client wont make things run that much faster per instance. The real goal is probably to be able to load up more instances to keep Fermi working near capacity.

yes it adds up nicely, because you can easily fabricate something like it. going backwards from x clients (which is the only verifiable number), you use nice numbers to calculate the number of cards you need, the remainder you write off as cpu folding cores, problem solved.

example: it says i have 391 (totally random number i just picked) clients, i know fermi has 512 shaders, so why not say .. i used .. 12 cards in 3 systems, i ran 32 instances on each gpu, thats 32*12 = 384 clients, 7 are missing, i now claim i ran three cpu clients on two systems (i have quad cores in these), and one cpu client on the 3rd system (it has only a dual core) that's 7 .. woot 391 clients ... un-ing-believable how all this fermi info adds up


so you think it is probable that nvidia made a gpu that has 3x the performance _per_ shader, managed to put over twice the amount of these wonder shaders into a 40 nm gpu die and got 7 actual working gpus back from tsmc to give to some random dude for folding? also try to work with the 2.4kw he posted for the ppd delivered, work out performance per watt for these cards, also work out power draw for one of these cards

But remember, we are just looking to see if his story fits...

It does, quite well in fact.

Maybe he actually has 200+ CPU's that produce 382K a day, and is just trying to lie about it? Naaaaaa

I think it is much more likely that the dude has 7 Fermi engineering samples, just like he posted.

If you are an average guy making a story up, you wouldn't even think about the specifics on how Fermi needed to be loaded up. Probably wouldn't even know. Also probably wouldn't know about the BETA GPU folding client.
A true Fermi owner would know though...

"so you think it is probable that nvidia made a gpu that has 3x the performance _per_ shader, managed to put over twice the amount of these wonder shaders into a 40 nm gpu die and got 7 actual working gpus back from tsmc to give to some random dude for folding?" YES.

(They have way more than 7 too... Count on it)
If I remember correctly, nVidia already verified they had more than 7 Fermi. But then again, you could say they lie too?

The attitude that the entire world is lying is hard to defend.

All I can say is his number of active folding clients, fits his story...
His specificks on how you would have to load up Fermi, rings true...
and his incredible PPD generated, also reflects a Fermi possibility...

I am giving him the benefit of the doubt.

He is a folding legend. On that, we have no dispute.