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Mxyzptlk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:50 pm That's pretty darn fast... At most I'll only have a 5080, but I'll wait to see some of those numbers before I pull the trigger.

You aren't fooling us. You'll end up with a 5090 in each rig!


They are impressive, but just like the last series, it might be hard to find work units that will really push them some.

A lot of projects leave the 5090 underutilized. I have two questions. As more people get the 5000 series, will new projects start fully utilizing the 5090? And if it's a matter of not all CUDA cores being utilized, would unlocking vGPU support in the driver and then splitting it into two (or more) vGPUs allow them to be fully used?

arisu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:28 am A lot of projects leave the 5090 underutilized. I have two questions. As more people get the 5000 series, will new projects start fully utilizing the 5090? And if it's a matter of not all CUDA cores being utilized, would unlocking vGPU support in the driver and then splitting it into two (or more) vGPUs allow them to be fully used?

There no known ways to increase utilisation of wide high end GPUs. Occasionally projects with large amount of atoms come along and they tax those GPU decently, other than that, majority of projects are medium or small sized.
VGPU will not be supported on desktop Nvidia GPUs, while AMD seem to have it, but there is no massive gains from it, though it is not slower

The newer consumer Nvidia GPUs can be unlocked to support vGPU but if there aren't massive performance gains then it doesn't really matter.

Would three 5080s be more helpful for the project than two 5090s? It's a lot cheaper and has approximately the same PPD (~80M). Or is the 5080 also difficult to fully utilize?

Efficiency usually peaks with x60 model of each generation ... it sometimes shifts a little bit toward x70 depending on the costs and power draw.

There are only so many cards that can be fit in a machine before the efficiency savings are offset by the more expensive motherboard.

enroscado wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:04 pm Wow, that's some power...

I wonder what it will crunch on Ubuntu/Linux.

GeForce RTX 5090 (Palit GameRock) under Ubuntu 24.04 with driver 570.124
Max PPD (project 16525) 61 209 402
Min PPD (project 16525) 59 049 102
Power consumption of the card is ~550W
GPU temperature is 76°C, fans at 52% (1950 RPM)

Retvari Zoltan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:52 pm

enroscado wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:04 pm Wow, that's some power...

I wonder what it will crunch on Ubuntu/Linux.

GeForce RTX 5090 (Palit GameRock) under Ubuntu 24.04 with driver 570.124
Max PPD (project 16525) 61 209 402
Min PPD (project 16525) 59 049 102
Power consumption of the card is ~550W
GPU temperature is 76°C, fans at 52% (1950 RPM)

How often are you receiving WUs? Do you find that your card is waiting for a WU most of the time, or is it folding most of the time?

Here's how my Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC is doing:



Dependant on what work unit I get the PPD ranges from circa 20m to 59m

0x22 worst
0x23 best
0x24 ok



Folding over time:


*Edit* TPF by core:



Power draw at the wall is anywhere between 600w and 700w, dependant on work unit.

The utilisation fluxuates quite considerably. This is during 1 work unit:



System is Windows 11, No additional overclock on GPU.
Temp is 67°C or below with fans at 85% - Noisy, but bearable. 100% is not bearable, but can bring temps down to almost sub 61°C.

Ambient room temperature is 26.1°C.


EDIT 15/04/25

For 339 work units completed over 19 days:

PPD to Work Unit


PPD to work Unit for Core 0x22


PPD to work Unit for Core 0x23


PPD to work Unit for Core 0x24

Just i start to run foldin with rtx5070ti OC, BUT, the version of F@H, advanced, only have two options!!!, OMG is anything, were are the complete version version of Advanced control?

GTX560 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:11 am Just i start to run foldin with rtx5070ti OC, BUT, the version of F@H, advanced, only have two options!!!, OMG is anything, were are the complete version version of Advanced control?

Padlock in fahclient setting section

RTX 5060 Ti seems to be running well
getting between 7.5 and 8.5 MPPD
Card using around 170W as measured by HWiNFO
Card temp runs around 75C

mharsch wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 9:21 pm RTX 5060 Ti seems to be running well
getting between 7.5 and 8.5 MPPD
Card using around 170W as measured by HWiNFO
Card temp runs around 75C

Thanks for that, i've been eyeing that card as possibly the one to get when I do a brand new build later this year. Good performance for the money then (as long as it stays at its current MSRP here in the UK!), and a bearable TDP for 24/7 folding.

So far it seems the 5000 series is as expected. No real major efficiency jumps from the 4000 series, just more options to fill in all the holes for TGP/price/etc. For the most part it seems that overall the overall cost of folding decreased due to the GPU costs, but electricity still comes into the picture for the higher end stuff.

Average PPD's from Folding.LAR.Systems
Running cost for 5090 taken from metered computer over a day and averaged out.
I'm presuming no diff in PPD between 8GB and 16GB!

DOH - Cant believe I missed the info on 5060Ti above.

Just need costs now (Costs = running cost of whole PC, not just card)

Bleh - Maths