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I find it interesting that PPD seems to scale with gaming performance rather than raw compute power (troops).  Does anyone know why that is?  Do you think we'll ever see "Vulkan cores" that improve performance (well, at least for AMD xD)?

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Perhaps folding is more similar to rendering and physics operations in games than simple floating point operations. It would make sense based on the fact that the computer is rendering then performing operations on (or folding) a protein, or at least that's how I understand it. 

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Someone can correct me if i am wrong, but i believe it was optimized like that on purpose so that regular gpu can do a good job folding. 

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