GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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Foliant
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GT 720M to old, isnt it?

Post by Foliant »

I did get a old Laptop with broken Display.
Can get a used Panel for ~50€, entire device in good condition (it isnt!) sell for around 80-100€ - so not interested in repairing it.

I didnt invest time because i think it might not fold and there currently is no OS installed.
Before throwing it away I want to make sure if its GPU is that useless I think.

So i know some Fermi do work and some dont, this should be the GPU

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0x10de:0x1298:2:2:GF117 [GeForce GT 720M] 240
Does the 240 tell me anything about performance?

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Re: GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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"[GeForce GT 720M] 240"
Basically it's a low powered card from about 8 years ago. I think, but I'm not 100% that the "240" is an indicator of its 32-bit floating point performance.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/g ... 720m.c2297

The "2:2" to the left of GF117 tells us what we need.

The first 2 indicates manufacturer
AMD = 1
NVidia = 2
Intel = 3

The second 2 indicates card capability (the Folding at Home crew use the term species)
AMD is on a range of 1-5
NVidia is on a range of 1-8
Intel is still in development and so far I've seen a range of 1-2

If these had read "0:0" your card would have already been deemed unsuitable for folding.

Your GPU is capable of folding but I don't know if it's powerful enough to work to the timeouts.
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Re: GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/g ... 720m.c2297
It is not the speed, it is the level of OpenCL support, it needs to be at least 1.2 and it is only 1.1. Sorry, it won't fold.
(it is also 1/3 as fast as a GT 1030, the card that minimally does complete all tasks)

(I have not seen any official announcement that Core_21, which this card COULD run, is done, but I have not seen a Core_21 Work Unit in a year and a half)
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Re: GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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You need a Kepler based GPU to run FAH ... although I wouldn't recommend going with such an old thing ...
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Re: GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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What CPU does it have? If it has a 4th generation i3/i5 it can CPU fold and also, probably get more points that way than a GPU of the caliber of a 720M can. An i5-4300U would net you around 10k PPD.
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Re: GT 720M to old, isnt it?

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I would be focusing my financial resources on purchasing cards that have either the Pascal (GTX 10xx); Turing (GTX 16xx/RTX 20xx) or Ampere (RTX 30xx) GPU's.

At the moment, don't use AMD iGPU's/GPU's--unless you have read the related threads regarding the performance issues with the more recent driver releases. Especially if you are using both an AMD iGPU/GPU, and an NVidia GPU card on the same system.

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