It could pave the way for ARM CPUs driving GPUs, basically the best of both worlds.BobWilliams757 wrote:
Based on the relative performance comparison, if you got it folding it should meet all the deadlines and such, and I'd guess be worth 60-65K PPD. It's not much slower than the Vega 11 on my machine.
That being said, I don't mind letting this machine run 24/7 to fold. But if I had quick GPU's like you do, I think the energy would be better spend letting them fold more often. It should be even more power efficient in the long run, and why set up a slow rig to fold if it's not very efficient?
We're not there yet, but people like Jeff Beerling is slowly starting to get some GPUs work on the PCIE x1 slot on the Pi 4 (CM4).
It won't take long before all drivers will be updated, and a Pi 4 could run a lower end Nvidia GPU.
I don't think we'll see it drive RTX GPUs anytime soon (other than for bitcoin mining, or The Collatz Conjecture, that use very little CPU and PCIE bandwidth).