That's right. Thanks for additional notes.

My bad, the earlier estimations were incorrect. The 70w is inclusive of the GPU idle (which may be about 5-10w), and the increase in cpu usage does not draw as 30w of power. Nonetheless, the point was to also include the other components power consumption in the calculation.

Anyway, just did measurements using a smart plug. These are for GPU only folding, without any programs/games running.

1. My gaming pc 4790k+gtx1070 at stock does uses 70w on idle. On GPU folding load, it jumps to 220w, for 650kppd (2954ppd/w). Lowering the gpu powerlimit to 50% with +100core oc gets the power consumption down to 180w, for 600kppd (3333ppd/w).


3. My wife's pc 2500k+gtx1060 (running fixed ~1750mhz@0.8v) uses 150w, for 400kppd (2666ppd/w)


4. My 24/7 server g4560+RX460 (all at stock, i dunno how to optimize AMD cards) uses 110w, for 125kppd (1136ppd/w)


(These data are using the current WUs assigned to me, different WUs might give different ppd.)

Hmm, I might as well stop folding on my 24/7 server, or swap the gpu since its the most inefficient.

Edit: added screenshots

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 23 2020, 10:11 PM

A very good sharing on green folding, with practical data and figures, well done.

finally, got a hold of CPU-based WU. and it's 14328, one of those that relate to COVID-19.

current TPF is about 27 seconds. which is damn fast. gotta say, Ryzen 3rd gen, the power usage is much lower than i'm expecting. (about 90 watts) absolutely slaying them WU.

but PPD wise, it's lesser than what my GPU (a RX 580) can generate.

so, from my self-monitoring thus far:
CPU folding, average PPD at 110k.
GPU folding, average PPD at 430k.

Kinda stopped folding when can't solve the issue with the client, only managed to utilize the CPU and i rather fold with GPU alone. Hope to get back folding soon, currently working somewhere with limited internet.

Date of last Work Unit 2019-10-27 03:00:29
Total score 14,923,223
Total WUs 472
Overall rank (if points are combined) 18,700 of 2,236,318

What OS are you using, windows?

Windows 10. Somehow manage to get it to work after numerous attempt and reinstalling windows and updates.

Helping Trump with your PC Idle Power?

Folding overnight with my GPU. So far done 2 WU. It was chewing through the 2nd WU when I left for work.
Computational Molecular Dynamics was my Final year project in Uni.

Is that a 8C/16T Ryzen 3000 series CPU? TPF = 27s is very fast.
Even RX 580 have 430k PPD, AMD cards are back to folding league.

Glad to hear that.

Nice, fold strong.

Anyone here running Rosetta@Home also? Since Folding@Home keeps running out of work units.

The COVID-19 Projects list is updated, quite a number of them, but still frequently ran out of work unit.

Not sure if anyone here running Rosetta@home or not.

Goldfries got make new video

I'm new to folding.

I normally run my PC 24/7. Set folding when idle and left overnight, next day saw there wasn't any folding done. If I enable folding while I'm working, it started just fine.

long time already, too bad se7en closed subforum

edit: unfornately I am more of a BOINC guy, so sticking with Rosetta@Home for now

This post has been edited by TruboXL: Mar 24 2020, 07:47 PM

Which team are you working for? BOINC@Malaysia seems inactive.

Our big boss has speak up.

I'm not sure how was the client interpret "idle", you might want to leave it at "while I'm working" to keep it running. We usually open advanced control interface for more control.

Nothing left from subforum.

Coming out of folding retirement for this one. Last fold was on PS3 & PC (HD 2900 XT GPU).

My Ryzen 5 2600X & Vega 56 are cooking at medium folding power. Had to set to light.

My PC (I5 + GTX 1060 6GB) constantly draw 200w from wall socket, which translate to 4.8 kWh/day if running for 24hr.

I fold solo

If people want to know what its like to contribute to Rosetta@Home, here's a screenshot
Work unit situation is almost like in Folding@home, you may or may not receive Covid19 WU depending on availability