NVidia card is only folding at ~40%

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FoldMeBackwards
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NVidia card is only folding at ~40%

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Hi everyone, I'm a new folder so bare with me in case I've overlooked this somewhere ...

Looking at the task manager of my Windows 10 Device I can see that the GPU is only used by ~40%.

Can you tell me if this is really the case or just that Windows can't show the folding status correctly ?

Most of the time I can see some Copy action in the GPU, but troughout one folding action the GPU never reaches 100% not even when the CPU is idling.

Any suggestions ?


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Neil-B
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Re: NVidia card is only folding at ~40%

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I just love task manager … It "fibs" … use the little drop down triangle and check the other options … one will probably show 100 (or very enar) usage - possible compute 1
2x Xeon E5-2697v3, 512GB DDR4 LRDIMM, SSD Raid, W10-Ent, Quadro K420
Xeon E3-1505Mv5, 32GB DDR4, NVME, W10-Pro, Quadro M1000M
i7-960, 12GB DDR3, SSD, W10-Pro, GTX1080Ti
i9-10850K, 64GB DDR4, NVME, W11-Pro, RTX3070

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Re: NVidia card is only folding at ~40%

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Ha !

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Neil-B
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Hardware configuration: 1: 2x Xeon E5-2697v3@2.60GHz, 512GB DDR4 LRDIMM, SSD Raid, Win10 Ent 20H2, Quadro K420 1GB, FAH 7.6.21
2: Xeon E3-1505Mv5@2.80GHz, 32GB DDR4, NVME, Win10 Pro 20H2, Quadro M1000M 2GB, FAH 7.6.21 (actually have two of these)
3: i7-960@3.20GHz, 12GB DDR3, SSD, Win10 Pro 20H2, GTX 750Ti 2GB, GTX 1080Ti 11GB, FAH 7.6.21
Location: UK

Re: NVidia card is only folding at ~40%

Post by Neil-B »

If you are interested running one of the monitoring tools (everyone has their favourite - I use HWMonitor) which not only give much better indications of utilisation in much greater detail but also allow monitoring of temperatures and more.
2x Xeon E5-2697v3, 512GB DDR4 LRDIMM, SSD Raid, W10-Ent, Quadro K420
Xeon E3-1505Mv5, 32GB DDR4, NVME, W10-Pro, Quadro M1000M
i7-960, 12GB DDR3, SSD, W10-Pro, GTX1080Ti
i9-10850K, 64GB DDR4, NVME, W11-Pro, RTX3070

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