Folding performance

[86JR]

Has anyone had sucess folding on ati 58** cards ?

I used to be big into this and have just started again, with a 260 gtx, havent bothered folding@cpu.

Im either buying a 470/480 or ati equivalent, but wondering what folding performance is like on ati cards, has it changed ? it used to be pathetic.

Would have thought ati's would be better due to lots more shaders !?

 

[86JR]

Well if you are buying a card primarily for folding then i reckon the 470/480 is a good choice if you don't mind the extremely high power draw and temps.

How is that correct ? The 85 only has half as many shaders so it should be half the folding performance of the 480 series ?

 

[86JR]

Another option seems to be 2 of the 275 combined psyx cards. these appear to be 275's with a 9800 built in ?

In which case that will give me 15kppd (per card) ?

The predicted real world ppd for the 400 series is 20k.