Folding on a APU?

[Small Turdle]

I am setting up a few different clients.  I have been experimenting.

 

How does Folding at home work on a APU.

 

I have set it up on a A10-7850K.  But it does not produce much.

 

If Folding@Home compatible with a APU?

 

When I set it up it got a WU for the CPU.  The Folding@Home client only uses 2 cores.  But the A10-7850K has 4 cores.  I'm not sure why this is.

 

I got a WU on the GPU.  But it is very slow.  The contribution is very low.

 

Maybe the A10-7850K just sucks.  Or maybe there are compatibility issues with Folding.  It works fine as an office PC at my parents house.  They think it is great for what they need.

 

I will let it run for a while and decide if it is worth it.

[Small Turdle]

The answer is -- It's NOT worth it.  In my opinion.

 

I found this.  https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/running-foldinghome/

"You will still receive credit for all WUs completed and uploaded prior to the Timeout (formerly preferred deadline). However, after the Timeout, your contribution is not as useful scientifically because another copy of that work unit had to be sent out to another contributor. Even if you eventually complete the work unit, that other contributor still had to process duplicate work to assure the science moves forward. And it would be unfair not to also credit that second contributor."

 

The A10-7850K sucks for folding.  It can not complete WU before the Timeout.

 

It may be best to keep this computer off not consume the energy unless the machine is needed by a user.

[Jurrunio]

48 minutes ago, Small Turdle said:

When I set it up it got a WU for the CPU.  The Folding@Home client only uses 2 cores.  But the A10-7850K has 4 cores.  I'm not sure why this is.

4 cores in groups of 2, This is the same core design that caused the FX series to flop so hard

 

48 minutes ago, Small Turdle said:

I got a WU on the GPU.  But it is very slow.  The contribution is very low.

That's to be expected... Even Vega 8 on the much newer 2200G only does about 20k PPD at stock. My 1060 mobile completes a WU on average in 2.5 hours with 350k-380k PPD, so a Vega 8 on the same WU will take 1.5 days per WU on average. Maybe they'll send you easier WUs in that case but with 7870k...

[Small Turdle]

41 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

4 cores in groups of 2, This is the same core design that caused the FX series to flop so hard

I used to have a FX 8350.  I remember this design.

 

I have decided that the A10-7850K is not good for Folding and I will uninstall it on that machine.

 

I forgot that it was the same design as the old FX chips.  I think the best approach is to make this machine sleep or shutdown more often.  It boots to SSD quickly enough.

 

It looks like it can not complete WU before timeout.