Pascal F@H?

[Lays]

So I was thinking to myself and wondering if anyone knew the answer to this question:

 

If Pascal is supposed to have all this crazy compute power, does that mean F@H will benefit a lot from the new compute power?

I'm not sure what type of compute F@H uses on our GPU's, so I figured I'd ask here about it.

 

 

[Samfisher]

Maxwell didn't have great compute power and outperformed the majority of AMD cards I think so no idea.

[FloRolf]

31 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Maxwell didn't have great compute power and outperformed the majority of AMD cards I think so no idea.

Maxwell actually kinda destroys F@H
@Lays himself is getting 1000k ppd with his 980ti.

I'm pretty sure that Pascal will be a lot better even, once it's optimized.

[Samfisher]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

Maxwell actually kinda destroys F@H
@Lays himself is getting 1000k ppd with his 980ti.

I'm pretty sure that Pascal will be a lot better even, once it's optimized.

I know it does.  I'm saying that even when maxwell had non existent compute power, it still did so well.

[Lays]

Just now, FloRolf said:

Maxwell actually kinda destroys F@H
@Lays himself is getting 1000k ppd with his 980ti.

I'm pretty sure that Pascal will be a lot better even, once it's optimized.

I see more like an average of 600-700k if I leave it on all day, I only saw it spike up to 1 million PPD for that 1 core 21 WU I had. It's hard to leave it running 24/7 when I have work & when I come home I want to use my PC for a bit before I have to sleep before work again.

[Lays]

1 minute ago, Samfisher said:

I know it does.  I'm saying that even when maxwell had non existent compute power, it still did so well.

Yeah it makes me wonder what type of compute F@H uses, or how it processes the work units.  Coz if Pascal improves on whatever compute stuff F@H uses, maybe we'll see a big boost in points.

 

(Plus I'm looking for more reasons to upgrade)

[Imakuni]

3 minutes ago, Lays said:

Yeah it makes me wonder what type of compute F@H uses, or how it processes the work units.  Coz if Pascal improves on whatever compute stuff F@H uses, maybe we'll see a big boost in points.

 

(Plus I'm looking for more reasons to upgrade)

From what I could gather, F@H uses mostly (if not exclusively) single precision calculations, which Maxwell is great at. That's why it does so good. If it was using double precision, Maxwell would be even worse than it's Kepler predecessor, as DP in Maxwell is crap.

 

By extension, we can predict Pascal's performance based on SP performance. Pascal's focus was compute power - in other words, DP power. It'll be greatly increased, but that won't help F@H. What will help is SP boosts, but those aren't going to be THAT big of a deal. Sure, it's going to improve, but it's not the deal breaker one might expect.

[Redicat]

9 hours ago, FloRolf said:

Maxwell actually kinda destroys F@H
@Lays himself is getting 1000k ppd with his 980ti.

I'm pretty sure that Pascal will be a lot better even, once it's optimized.

Well crap how ami having a GTX 970 & GTX 760 folding at only 250K?