Folding Power of GT 710?

[suchamoneypit]

out of curiosity, does someone have and can test, or has already run a GT 710 for Folding@home? What are you getting in terms of points? Would it be possible to throw like 4-5 of them in a server just for fun and have them fold because they are such low wattage (how are they Points/watt compared to something like a 1050?)? How would say 4 of them at like $150 total compare to a single 1050 or something?

 

I get its not the best path, and Im not looking for suggestions like "A single card is just better, just get that", I'm looking for actual numbers.

[Xanthe_2871]

I searched around on Google but couldn't find anything helpful. Hopefully someone here has experience with it!

[TheGlenlivet]

I used a 610 when experimenting with multi cards and it would do like 1200 points a day.  Less than an older Dual core CPU running in the Chrome client. It's not great...

a 710 should be better.  Can you install 1 of them and let it run for a few hours to see what it does?

 

 

[suchamoneypit]

On 11/11/2016 at 1:54 PM, TheGlenlivet said:

I used a 610 when experimenting with multi cards and it would do like 1200 points a day.  Less than an older Dual core CPU running in the Chrome client. It's not great...

a 710 should be better.  Can you install 1 of them and let it run for a few hours to see what it does?

 

 

I'll have to wait, I do want at least one low powered GPU for my server, just started a new job, when I get paid I might pick up a single 710, and if I can get drivers working on Windows server 2016 I'll report back for others to see.

 

And yeah just the server's CPU's put out 120k points a day, 1200 wouldn't be worthwhile.

[Alaa]

On ‎10‎-‎11‎-‎2016 at 2:56 AM, suchamoneypit said:

out of curiosity, does someone have and can test, or has already run a GT 710 for Folding@home? What are you getting in terms of points? Would it be possible to throw like 4-5 of them in a server just for fun and have them fold because they are such low wattage (how are they Points/watt compared to something like a 1050?)? How would say 4 of them at like $150 total compare to a single 1050 or something?

 

I get its not the best path, and Im not looking for suggestions like "A single card is just better, just get that", I'm looking for actual numbers.

I'd love to have a reason to buy 4 GT 710s for fun, but I don't benchmark stuff nor do I have the time to do so. Sorry.

[FloRolf]

Nah it'll be a waste of everything. 

It starts to make sense at xx50 series. 

Best performance/Watt usually come from the biggest gpus, like a 1080 or Titan XP. 

[suchamoneypit]

1 hour ago, FloRolf said:

Nah it'll be a waste of everything. 

It starts to make sense at xx50 series. 

Best performance/Watt usually come from the biggest gpus, like a 1080 or Titan XP. 

eh, I'm not so inclined for performance/watt, more of price/performance/watt.

[FloRolf]

8 hours ago, suchamoneypit said:

eh, I'm not so inclined for performance/watt, more of price/performance/watt.

Well like I was saying, if you spent your whole budget on the highest possible card, you get the most performance. 

 

For example, 5 gt710s apparently give you 5x1200 ppd for $150. That 6000ppd.

For 150 you could get 2-3 gtx750ti's which each put out ~70k ppd. Meaning 210k if you are lucky. 

A used GTX970 on the other hand is also around $150 while pulling 300k ppd. 

 

As you can see, the higher you go the better. Even the step 970 to 980 yields massive improvements even though it's a very similar card. It's like 300k vs 450k ppd. 

 

So again, look at the used market and spent your entire budget on a single card rather than multiple smaller ones. 

[vanished]

http://www.overclock.net/t/475163/gpu-projects-ppd-database

 

If it's not in there (it's not) it's probably not worth it.