GPU2 client on NVIDIA hardware - Page 2

Zenphic · 24th Jun 2008, 10:57 AM

I've slowed down my folding as well. I only let my client run at 20%. Power saving is so much more appealing heheh

With the GPU2 client though you can do a lot for the folding community compared to the CPU clients. Video cards (Nvidia) > CPU by a lot
If you compare power consumption per WU done, the Nvidia video card might be better.

Adrian Wong · 24th Jun 2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Chai

I think conserve power is for humanity, while folding only helps those who are actually affected.

Plus, they build quite a lot of redundancies into the distributed computing system. There would probably be many cases of the proteins being folded the same way... or in the case of SETI, several PCs analyzing the same patch of the sky.

This means that while distributed computing gives researchers a lot of free computing power, it is actually quite inefficient and wasteful of computing power.

Chai · 24th Jun 2008, 01:48 PM

It's more appealing when ATI and Nvidia are optimising power consumption by reducing voltage and clockspeed like the Intel/AMD. Although GT200 is extremely power hungry, I like their idle consumption.

Adrian Wong · 25th Jun 2008, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Chai

It's more appealing when ATI and Nvidia are optimising power consumption by reducing voltage and clockspeed like the Intel/AMD. Although GT200 is extremely power hungry, I like their idle consumption.

Yeah, the trend is for GPUs to adopt the same kind of fine and coarse voltage and clock gating to minimize power consumption according to the load.

Mac Daddy · 25th Jun 2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Yeah, the trend is for GPUs to adopt the same kind of fine and coarse voltage and clock gating to minimize power consumption according to the load.

I think that is a good trend and apparent on the G94 GPU on the 96xx series. This card uses less power than my old X1950 lol

Chai · 25th Jun 2008, 12:12 PM

I don't think G94 supports power optimization. It's just that G94 is a cool chip to begin with.

ZuePhok · 25th Jun 2008, 04:31 PM

hybrid power is the best power saving feature by far. i can literally shut the GX2 power sucker off when on desktop. too bad it's not available on Intel platform. booo!!

Mac Daddy · 25th Jun 2008, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Chai

I don't think G94 supports power optimization. It's just that G94 is a cool chip to begin with.

True but the same type of thinking as Zuephok and Adrian mentioned. Three or 4 years ago would we be undervolting CPU's to reach stable O/C's?

iModAMD · 26th Jun 2008, 03:41 AM

Rofl... all thoses features for what i see alot of people who have kick ass computers and theirs computers are on all the night... you can have all thoses FAMOUS technologies but none of them will beat to close your computer when it's unused or even put it in sleep mode

Adrian Wong · 26th Jun 2008, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ZuePhok

hybrid power is the best power saving feature by far. i can literally shut the GX2 power sucker off when on desktop. too bad it's not available on Intel platform. booo!!

Only available on the NVIDIA platform.

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Zenphic Super Active Join Date: 23 Apr 2006 Location: Quebec, Canada Posts: 1,098 Reputation: 467 Rep Power: 9	I've slowed down my folding as well. I only let my client run at 20%. Power saving is so much more appealing heheh With the GPU2 client though you can do a lot for the folding community compared to the CPU clients. Video cards (Nvidia) > CPU by a lot If you compare power consumption per WU done, the Nvidia video card might be better.