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Folding Captain
Legit Reviews had this to say on possible folding performance at this link:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GF100 DX11 Video Card Review - GeForce GTX F@H Performance - Legit Reviews
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There will have to be some PPD wrung out of the drivers, and the coming weeks and months may get me to spring for a GTX 470. A little disappointing TBH, but time will tell as the architecture matures.
If you are a folder, I would say a used 295 might be had for the 15k for a decent deal.
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Not good enough for me. If I were starting folding or moving from a low-end card, I would go Fermi but for 24/7 folding, and the cooling needed for these things, 13k-15k is not good enough to have me replace my WC 285s.For our test we were sent three different work units, one of which (Spectrin) we weren't able to get our system to work correctly with on either graphics card. The results pretty much speak for themselves, a 50%-70% speed increase with about a 40% increase in power consumption. So indeed we are gaining performance per watt and actually giving the CPU a little more to keep the new GeForce GTX 480 fed with data. For those of you planning on running one or two of these beasts 24/7 will need to work hard to keep them cool. At 96C under a folding load the GeForce GTX 480 will go a long way to keep your room warm on those cold winter nights. With spring and summer on the way for the North though it could be one very high electric bill!
As far as expected points per day go, I will quote Nvidia "a GTX280 does about 7700 points per day (PPD), so the PPD for the GTX480 would be based on the speed up. So, if the GTX 480 is doing 70% better, then it would get 1.7 x 7700 = 13,090 PPD."
There will have to be some PPD wrung out of the drivers, and the coming weeks and months may get me to spring for a GTX 470. A little disappointing TBH, but time will tell as the architecture matures.
If you are a folder, I would say a used 295 might be had for the 15k for a decent deal.