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GeForce GTX280 folds three times faster than Radeon HD 3870

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Hi, I used search and dont see this posted as its a few days old and this is 1st I could post.

Incase you did not know, peeps moaned that ATI could use Folding @ Home on current ATI cards and Nvidia users could not.

The other day a new Folding Client was released for Nvidia users.


QUOTED :


" Folding GPU client is on the way for Nvidia cards


Stanford University has been releasing GPU clients for AMD graphics cards for some time now, and there's even a GPU2 client in the works (the beta is available here). Somewhat surprisingly, though, Stanford has yet to release a GPU client that can harness the computing power of Nvidia's latest and greatest graphics processors.

That will all change soon; according to PC Perspective, Folding@home project head Vijay Pande made an appearance at an Nvidia meeting in San Jose, California to show an Nvidia version of the GPU client. PC Per says the software was shown running on an unannounced Nvidia product, so details are sparse for the time being. However, the Nvidia-compatible client looks to be on the way regardless.

To learn more about folding, be sure to check out our distributed computing forum. As always, feel free to show your support for TR by folding for team 2630. "


http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/14783


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Then early reports gave out this input :


QUOTED :


" GeForce GTX280 folds three times faster than Radeon HD 3870


GeForce GTX 280 is going to be a mighty beast. The GT200 core impressed us from the very beginning in matters of raw performance. Alas there have been little information on the real-life performance of the card, other than statements that it runs Crysis fine at certain settings and that it scores 7000 points in the Vantage Extreme profile. We've been provided some more solid information based on the performance in Stanford's Folding@Home client. A slide recently presented says that GeForce GTX 280 will be capable of folding slightly more than 500 mol/day, which is three times more than what Radeon HD 3870 can do, about 170 mol/day (according to the slide), or five times more than PlayStation 3; 100 mol/day. "



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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7777.html


Seems peeps cant BOAST with PS3's as they are no longer the kings of Folding ;).
 
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As above.


Why not put it on the GTX 280 / 260 thread?

Why not actually quote the quoted parts instead of putting a subtitle saying quoted?
 
Damn it, tried using SEARCH + Folding sorry been on long holiday. :(


Azza said:
As above.


Why not put it on the GTX 280 / 260 thread?

Why not actually quote the quoted parts instead of putting a subtitle saying quoted?
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Thats the way I do it and never any issue, and I never seen the other posting even using search (been out 2 weeks) or it would have been posted as new and I will be posting far less TBH as im getting a bit sick of it.

MOD's please DELETE entire thread, THANKS.
 
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Ben M said:
I thought folding was done on your CPU :confused:

is it both cpu and gpu?
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ATI cards have been doing it for like nearly 2 years now.


Get with the times Ben. :p



Guess what aswell... with CUDA there is going to be a SuperPi port so you can run SuperPi using your graphics card. :)
 
Ben M said:
I thought folding was done on your CPU :confused:

is it both cpu and gpu?
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There are clients that allow folding to be run on the GPU (CPU will still be needed to feed it data).

I found this really unimpressive, so their new gen card is 3 times faster than ATIs last gen card....yay? Leaves me thinking that if this card was 3 times faster in games than the 3870 they'd have told us that instead.
 
The PS3 used to be the fastest as of the CELL Processsor was suited to it over our PC type CPU's, although not compairable to them for other stuff.
 
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Azza said:
Guess what aswell... with CUDA there is going to be a SuperPi port so you can run SuperPi using your graphics card. :)
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I saw that on XS, surely a GPU is going to be slow in SuperPi which is single threaded whereas GPUs are designed for massively multithreaded use.
 
Jokester said:
Next gen cards are mainly going to be 1GB (though it's unclear if this is 2x512MB).
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GTX 280 could be that... seen as it has that RAM on the other side of the card.


Unless im thinking about it in a completly stupid way.
 
I had a 256MB x1650 pro with RAM on both sides - certainly wasn't 2x 128MB. :P

GT200 is just one chip, don't see why it'd split RAM like that for no benefit.
 
Ram on both sides is just to get more space to solder the Ram Chips, it does not mean its 2x anything.

Same as some Memory Modules are single sided or double sided, all depends on size (MB) of the Ram chips.
 
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