Just installed a GTX 1650..... low PPD?

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Demmers
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Just installed a GTX 1650..... low PPD?

Post by Demmers »

A friend gave me his old gaming machine, complete with an old AMD GPU whose model i've yet to determine, plus a GTX 1650.
I just installed the 1650 into my own machine, which is already folding with a Ryzen 3400G, both CPU and iGPU, no graphics card. I paused everything before the installation of the card and drivers, then proceeded to continue folding. I am puzzled by the current status. The 1650 is currently at 147,000 PPD... the base credit for the WU is 190,000! I see in https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/brands/nvidia/ that this card should be scoring much higher https://imgur.com/a/u47bHVa Am I missing something here? Am I right in seeing that CUDA isn't being used? The CPU was originally folding at 6 CPU's (4 cores, 8 threads) but i've just knocked that down to 4.

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arisu
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Re: Just installed a GTX 1650..... low PPD?

Post by arisu »

It is using CUDA, that's not the problem.

Pause folding on both the CPU cores and iGPU and see if the PPD on the GPU increases. Nvidia GPUs are notorious for their sensitivity to unrelated workloads.
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