Folding on GeForce 8800

It can fold, yes , but when?
Any gpu can fold, but you can't fold with it until Stanford release a client and at the current rate that could take a while.
 
I think it will be some time before we see a client for it, Stanford haven't finished the current GPU client yet! Although I don't know why anyone is surprised, the main reason why the other nVidia GPUs can't fold is because their architecture doesn't lend itself to folding. A brand new state of the art 400 quid rip off ought to have solved this :D

SiriusB
 
wow what a deep and insightful article :rolleyes: :p
I thought it was a summary for an article or that the rest of the article followed further down the page - alas no

Indeed the G80 cards should be much better at folding than the previous NVidia cards which Stanford started their GPU testing on before realising the ATI cards were so much more suited. The G80 may actually do quite a lot better than the current ATI offering as I've heard that it will be able to act more like a CPU if needed which may hopefully be used to reduce the CPU loading due to polling (though of course that's really a directx feature so who knows for sure). A lot of "if's" and "maybe's" floating around but it will be good to see how it develops.

I certainly won't be buying any new machines/cards for the time being - though I'm very tempted to go for an AGP X1950 PRO once the initial rush is over and the prices come down a little :cool:
 
I'm temped by an x1950 pro aswell to tide me over until the dx 10 cards come down to sensible prices and r600 appears.
Any idea how they will fold, what sort of ppd they are getting?
 
Am I wrong in saying that memory speed makes little difference to folding on the GPU? So in other words there isn't much difference between the X1950s and X1900s?

SiriusB
 
joeyjojo said:
1950 is a rip off. You can overclock the cheapest 1900xt fairly significantly, I imagine the max speeds of each card are very very similar.
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We're talking about the X1950PRO not the X1950XT-X, the X1950PRO is a cut-down version but most importantly it's also going to be available in AGP.

There has been word of 500-550 PPD which isn't bad considering that these will be priced quite a bit cheaper than the X1900/1950 XT/XT-X cards and will mean that AGP machines will be able to give you decent output once more :cool:


edit: oh and as for the Nvidia G80 cards they will be using something called NVidia CUDA which will enable the GPU to be used more like a CPU and should overcome the current limitations of using the DirectX API for folding (though it'll also mean that Stanford have to make a seperate client for CUDA enabled GPUs - even more waiting :o)

NVIDIA CUDA
Revolutionary GPU Computing
NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology is a fundamentally new computing architecture for the GPU to solve complex computational problems across consumer, business, and technical industries. CUDA (compute unified device architecture) technology gives data-intensive applications access to the tremendous processing power of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) through a revolutionary computing architecture unleashing entirely new capabilities. Providing orders of magnitude more performance and simplifying software development through the standard C language, CUDA technology enables developers to create solutions for data-intensive processing to produce accurate answers, in less time.
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