brightsideofnews.com - 10/7/2009
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Besides PeakStream [now owned by Google], Folding@home was the first app supported by ATI under its Stream initiative, and FireStream GPGPU card [back in 2006]. However, as the time went by, the performance of ATI boards in Folding@home remained on the same level - a mediocre one, when compared ...
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Folding@home: ATI Radeon HD 5870 same performance as 4870!
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... points per day and we definitely didn't expected that Radeon HD 5870 1GB will join the club. In our measurements, different units showed that the number of points will vary between 1650 and 3150 points per day, dramatically lagging behind nVidia GeForce cards. In comparison, Gainward's GeForce GTX 275 returns between 5400 and 7100 PPD - depending on how complex the units are. Direct competitors to Radeon HD 5870, GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 are simply leaving HD 5870 in the dust. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-as-4870!.aspx
ATI Radeon HD 5870 not faster in F@H than 4870
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... Bright Side of News reports the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 doesn't perform any better in Folding@Home than its predecessor due to software issues. The ATI client is based on the retired Brook+ and as this runtime is no longer supported Folders will need to wait until a next-gen version of Folding@Home comes out that supports OpenCL or DirectCompute. ...
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