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Core i7 Folding score
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:55 pm
by tipoo
a review of the new socket AM3 Phenom II processors shows some CPU's average points per day in F@H:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16382/10
wow. even the weakest processor on that chart gets 441 points per day as an average of all WU types...
i did some math on my folding and i get about 344 points per WU, and it usualy takes around 48 hours.
thats about 171 points per day.
the fastest single processor on that chart gets a staggering 1997 PPD!!! over 10X as fast as mine! i found that pretty insane, just wanted to share.
Does anyone run a Corei7 here?
Re: Core i7 Folding score
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:08 pm
by toTOW
The benchmark provided in the article are for uniprocessor cores only. If you want to get some results from SMP clients, you can read these two threads :
i7 under Linux : viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7266
i7 under Windows : viewtopic.php?f=46&t=7243
Re: Core i7 Folding score
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:36 pm
by tipoo
toTOW wrote:The benchmark provided in the article are for uniprocessor cores only. If you want to get some results from SMP clients, you can read these two threads :
i7 under Linux : viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7266
i7 under Windows : viewtopic.php?f=46&t=7243
Nah, the benchmark i linked provides info for multicore CPU's as well.
notfred's Folding Benchmark CD tests the most common work unit types and estimates performance in terms of the points per day that a CPU could earn for a Folding team member. The CD itself is a bootable ISO. The CD boots into Linux, detects the system's processors and Ethernet adapters, picks up an IP address, and downloads the latest versions of the Folding execution cores from Stanford. It then processes a sample work unit of each type.
On a system with two CPU cores, for instance, the CD spins off a Tinker WU on core 1 and an Amber WU on core 2. When either of those WUs are finished, the benchmark moves on to additional WU types, always keeping both cores occupied with some sort of calculation. Should the benchmark run out of new WUs to test, it simply processes another WU in order to prevent any of the cores from going idle as the others finish. Once all four of the WU types have been tested, the benchmark averages the points per day among them. That points-per-day average is then multiplied by the number of cores on the CPU in order to estimate the total number of points per day that CPU might achieve."
Re: Core i7 Folding score
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:18 am
by toTOW
It only runs multiple uniprocessor cores at the same time. It doesn't test the SMP cores : GRO-SMP (a1) and GROCVS (a2).