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ATI/AMD cards are compatable with Folding - but they tend to offer lower performance by quite a bit per watt.
Some of the newest ones are getting closer - but even the current top-of-the-line AMD Vega VII is a thin hair faster to the same on PPD and similar power draw vs my generation-old Nvidia GTX 1080ti cards, while the current NVidia 20xx high end cards are almost twice the PPD/watt.
 
Folding for some reason is more efficient on NVidia cards and has been for several generations now, I'm not sure why.
 
There are projects where AMD cards have been higher to the same performance though - I'm not sure what the current numbers look like, but the MooWrapper BOINC project (Dnet RC-72 underneath) showed a slight advantage to the Vega64 vs the GTX 1080ti on stock settings that grew with tweeking, and even my "reference" model Vega56 is very close when tweeked to my top-end Aorus GTX 1080ti cards when tweeked - both are capable of close to 10 GigaKeys/sec (Vega a bit below, 1080ti a little above).

When the PS3 first showed up, there was NO "GPU compute" at all.
The CPU in the PS3 was one of the most powerful in the world at the time - in a FAIRLY CHEAP game machine.
 
Today, a single low-end GPU would blow away ANY console - for reference, the graphic GPUs in the current PS or XBox models are very close in specs to old AMD A10 7860K/7890K APU except that one of them uses GDDR5 instead. That is about equal to the HD7750 in capability (same core count, same or slower RAM, a little higher clock rate).
By CURRENT GPU standards, that's not even an ENTRY level card - the GTX 1030 was comparably to a bit faster (Folding works somewhat better on NVidia as they handle complex calculations better due to how they are designed, presuming same core count and clock speed and ram speed) and anything current in a new GPU is quite a bit faster.
 
It's not comparable at all to the early PS3 days when they offered an insane amount of compute power for cheap.
 
BTW - the PS3 was NOT initially intended to run LINUX, folks had to hack into it to make that possible - then eventually Sony gave up and allowed it semi-officially.
 

No shock - there were a TON of them for a while working in the Distributed.Net project.
MOSIX or Beowulf were widely popular around that timeframe.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

I was wondering where you folks came from.
One positive - the Folding infrastructure group seem to have finally figured out how to ramp up their production of work units to work on BIG TIME over the last few days.
 
Are you planning to continue pushing on Folding after your Covid event passes?
 
For reference, I'm a fairly long time fairly big hitter from Team Curecoin - won't be joining y'all for this situation, but under the circumstances I can certainly consider your impressive response a major positive to the project as a whole. Says a lot you've managed to pass up ANONYMOUS and the DEFAULT team.
 
If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.