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Interesting that there would be such an improvement with Fermi. I'll try it this weekend.

Ah, that would do it. Maybe give this a try: http://joe.siegler.net/2013/03/turning- ... -in-gmail/

If anybody has accurate before/after stats (same WU project [ P RCG]) or running side-by-side (same GPU type & WU project, but different drivers) where the results are obvious and definitive , I think we'd all like to see those. PLEASE POST if you have solid info - Thanks! I didn't keep tabs on...

I see a new core 17 WU, the p9401, which I'm guessing is newly released out of Beta, or something like that. :) I sent my first one in earlier, & I'm around 10% done with the second. On my GTX 680, it's showing a little over 38k ppd. EDIT: BTW, this is with the 332.21 WHQL drivers. If at all po...

I was reading AnandTech's review of Nvidia's Maxwell cards yesterday (the GTX 750 and 750 Ti) and noticed this little part in the review: The release 334 drivers include a fairly impressive tune up of NVIDIA’s OpenCL stack, so we’re finding that OpenCL performance is significantly improved in some o...

bs_texas wrote:What's the difference between shaders and cuda cores?

Thanks.

Different names for the same thing.

Do you have any idea how universal NEON optimizations would be? I looked up the specs for my Samsung tablet and they won't tell me what CPU is in it. What percentage of the GPUs have OpenCL or CUDA support? At this point, NEON support is pretty much universal with mid/high-end SoCs. The last high-p...

If the cards are working on core 15 WUs, the PPD will be lower (around what you mentioned). With core 17, it'll be higher. As Kjetil mentioned, switch to the 327.23 driver. Anything higher than that will cause your 650 to run much slower than normal when working on core 17 WUs. Using FAHBench as an ...

I've been running BOINC on my phone and tablet for a few months - Asteroids@Home and Einstein@Home. I'm not sure what throughput desktop hardware normally gets with them, but so far I've accumulated 15720 points for Asteroids and 12687 for Einstein (my phone being the majority for both). Current wor...

There are no drivers that will help the situation, though it's been widely reported that the more recent Nvidia drivers (331.xx, 332.xx, and 334.xx) folding much worse than some older ones (326.xx or 327.xx) on everything except GK110 cards (780, 780 Ti, Titan). This is usually is most noticeable w...

EDIT: It appears that since Remote Desktop doesn't use the actual GPU of the computer, Folding@Home can't use it either if started over RDP. Therefore, the solution was simply to use an alternative to RDP, and the graphics card is now folding at 192k PPD. Sorry to bother you with this stupid proble...

Yeah, hopefully they get it resolved soon - as well as not sucking up a whole CPU thread to run OpenCL stuff. Those two things will make me very happy :). I'm still running 327.23 with zero issues so far. I'm not playing any brand-new games, so I should be fine for a while. I did recently run the bu...

Going back to the v327.23 driver restored my folding performance to its previous value (== over 4 Million PPD). Same here with my GTX 680. I get about the same PPD with 327.23 as with 314.22 (my previous favorite driver). Anything newer=massive PPD loss. The earlier 32x.xx drivers were very unstabl...

I wish :(. I installed Windows 8.1 on my PC about a month ago and installed the 331.82 drivers. I was on a folding hiatus for a few weeks so I didn't test them immediately but they ran great in games, unlike all of the 32x.xx versions I tried. I started folding again a few days ago and noticed the P...

I ran this on all of my currently-running PCs. It took a lot longer than I anticipated. I also have results for an i5-3470 and a Radeon HD 7470, but I left them at work. I'll add them tomorrow. Edit: I apparently forgot to run the double precision bit on the i5, so I'll be posting that PC's results ...