I am using an AMD FX-8350 CPU to fold with. I am wondering if the following CPU instructions are supported by the Folding@home client:
AVX
FMA4 & XOP
And what about Mantle? http://www.amd.com/us/products/technolo ... antle.aspx
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PantherX wrote:..............................
From what I have read, Mantle is only used for increasing the FPS while gaming. For optimum use of AMD GPUs, PG has already released FahCore_17 which uses OpenCL 1.1.
< folding_hoomer> Tested the new Catalyst 14.1Beta1.6 with my R9 290X:
<@Jesse_V> and?
< folding_hoomer> I got a significant boost in calculation time: With Project 8902 the TPF dropped from 1:35min to only 1:28min
< folding_hoomer> That results in addiotional 24K PPD . . .
< folding_hoomer> *additional
< folding_hoomer> Project 8900 and 9401 not tested yet, but will follow
<@Jesse_V> very nice
< folding_hoomer> i will also test the new 14.1Beta1.6 with HD7870 . . .
< folding_hoomer> Awesome - Catalyst14.1Beta 1.6 boosted my HD7870, too!
< folding_hoomer> with Project 8900 it reduces the TPF from 5:17 min to 4:38 min (HD7870@1200MHz under Win7) and i will get additional 15K PPD
< folding_hoomer> Now my HD7870 is folding faster than my GTX670 factory OC´d under Linux!
< EXT64> Does 14.1 use a CPU core?
< EXT64> 9401 is pretty variable, so that might be harder to test (but 8900 would be interesting to see on an R9-290X)
< folding_hoomer> On my i7 875K@3808MHz - the "driver" for my HD7870 - ProcessLasso shows a CPU-usage of only 1% for Core17
< folding_hoomer> on R9 290X with Project 8900: it uses less than 10% of my C2D 6300@2600MHz - most time only 4-6% and - for a period of some seconds - one complete CPU-Core.
< folding_hoomer> the R9 290x "produces" more than 170K PPD with Project 8900 and Catalyst 14.1Beta 1.6- before i got about 150K PPD (Catalyst 13.12)
< folding_hoomer> with Project 9401 i think it is possible to get about 190K PPD with the faster ones. . .
< EXT64> Nice! Thanks for the update
< Patriot> 14.1 does bring a new OpenCL version
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