Folding Forum

Hello all,

I was surprised to see there wasn't any discussion about the Intel Core Ultra cpus. I suppose with GPU folding being much more efficient that makes sense. I decided to grab a 265K with some 7600mhz ram, So far I'm observing 550k-800k estimates in the v7 client on 19 cores, which is close to my 7950x rig, impressive. Power usage is hovering in the 160w area on average according to HWinfo. I'd be curious to hear other's results!

People have not been commenting here much beyond gripes about Intel processors recently. The big-little configuration is not well utilized by the CPU folding core code. The Windows scheduler also has its quirks about dealing with big-little, often scheduling the folding threads on the efficiency cores instead of the performance cores. Utilizing the performance cores tends to slow down WU processing.

It would be interesting to see what processing on just the 8 performance cores gets for PPD. Under Windows that may take using a third party utility such as Process Lasso to get the CPU folding core threads assigned to the performance cores.