Folding Forum

Hello everyone,

I'm just wondering if it's normal for a "fold" to take ~7 hours for my GPU to complete? Whereas it's taking roughly ~2.5 hours for my CPU to complete a different "fold".

I'm using a laptop, and my specs are as follows:

CPU: Intel i7 4710MQ @2.5GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 M290X @4GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3

I'm currently running the settings on medium so I can continue to browse, watch videos, streams, etc, while it folds. If this is a normal time to complete a fold for a GPU then no problem. Just wondering if I could boost the performance up so it folds faster or if it's already doing what it's supposed to be doing. I went into my catalyst and assigned all the folding@home programs to "High Performance" so I know it's working as hard as it should.

Thanks for your help.

Projects (like people) come in all sizes and shapes as do GPUs and CPUs. The time to complete an arbitrary project on similar hardware can vary quite significantly, too. A couple of general rules:
* Most GPUs are significantly faster that most CPUs, hence the points per WU will be higher.
* The time to complete a specific WU should be compared with the deadlines found here (as well in the header for this page).

Your goal should be to complete all projects as quickly as possible -- and certainly by the deadline.

Using the slider and auto (-1), setting it to medium, makes the GPU fold only when idling. Correct?

The GPU runs when idling except if the slider is set to full -- unless you make settings that override the slider's ability to control things.