Support for Radeon HD 5450

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Support for Radeon HD 5450

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Hello, I wonder, can you add support for Support for Radeon HD 5450 or it already has it?

My GPU won't start with folding.

Can you help me, please?
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Re: Support for Radeon HD 5450

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Welcome to the folding support forum.

The Radeon HD 5450 is already in the GPUs.txt file and is listed as supported. However as the lowest performance GPU from an 8 year old product line it probably can not complete current GPU work units within deadlines. In addition it is based on AMD-ATI's Terascale architecture, the current GPU folding core works better on GCN based cards.
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Re: Support for Radeon HD 5450

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Thank you so much for the answer.

What is your suggestion?
Should I just folding with CPU, or there is some way that I can help also with my current GPU?
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Re: Support for Radeon HD 5450

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It was the bottom level card when new 8 years ago, and may only have 1/2 gig RAM, the largest version has 2 gig. So on some versions, the WUs won't even start.
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Re: Support for Radeon HD 5450

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My suggestion is just fold on your CPU. You might be able to find another distributed computing project that can use your HD 5450, but for the Folding@home project it is close to being deprecated.

One other issue I forgot to mention in my first post, the HD5450 only supports single-precision calculations. The current GPU folding core uses some double-precision calculations on many projects when needed. So cards without double-precision calculations have fewer possible assignments.
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