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I'm not sure why, but it would appear that Folding@Home PPD is up roughly 50% on AMD cards vs a few years ago.  My Fury used to score 400k give or take, and now it's more like 600k.  According to one of the big folders on the forum, Vega cards have seen a similar change (~600k -> 900k).  I'm curious to know if anyone knows why, and/or can confirm they're seeing this on their hardware of any kind (or not).

  1. Origami Cactus

    Origami Cactus

    Amd cards have always been really strong, but with bad drivers slowing them down af.

    So probably a driver update fixed something.

  2. Spotty

    Spotty

    I wonder if my HD7970 would show any signs of improvement.

  3. Spotty

    Spotty

    Well, I have no idea. :S

    My HD7970 is estimating 1M PPD. That's at least 5 times more than what it should be.
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    Might let it run and see if it finishes the work unit successfully.

  4. Spotty

    Spotty

    Okay, it has updated now. That looks a bit more reasonable. 180K PPD.

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  5. TVwazhere

    TVwazhere

    180k ppd is still higher than the recorded average

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?output=html#

  6. TopHatProductions115

    TopHatProductions115

    I wanted to get an AMD card, too :( But prices on the hardware I needed went way up. Supply shortage played a big part...

  7. vanished

    vanished

    The prices went way up around the time vega came out due to mining and in some cases they never came back down lol

    A common problem I see with tech retailers is a complete lack of understanding of the market and excessive greed.  Basically, they'll try to sell things for what they paid + a bit of profit regardless of whether or not it's reasonable or will actually happen or not.

     

    Example 1: a certain lineup of GPUs exists.  The 5/10 performer sells for $200, the 7/10 performer sells for $350, and the 9/10 performer sells for $500.  Then a new lineup of GPUs launches, and you can now get 7/10 performance for $200, 9/10 performance for $350, etc.

     

    Example 2: prices of GPUs are insanely high but the store decides to just roll with it and buy a ton of them.  They manage to sell some but not all, and then the price crashes so people can now get them for half or less what they cost before.

     

    In both these cases, the store now has two choices:

    1. Accept that the market has now changed and drop the price of the old/existing stock so it's in line with the price/performance ratio that exists elsewhere on the market so that they will actually continue selling the cards, albeit at a lower profit level, or perhaps even a loss, but hopefully not too much, or
    2. Dig in their heels and continue "selling" the cards for the same price as always, despite the fact no one will ever pay that, so the cards sit around for years until they finally get thrown into a bargain clearout bin for next to nothing causing the initial purchase to be a complete loss

    I constantly see stores going for option 2 and I don't understand it. But, if they want to be stupid and screw themselves over that's their choice lol

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