What is the fastest graphics card for folding?

To help you choose the right graphics cards for your folding efforts, we benchmarked a selection of cards and graphed the results below. One aspect to bear in mind is that because the number of atoms varies between the different projects, some projects fold faster on certain GPUs, so your card may not produce exactly the same ppd as our cards produced. A good rule of thumb is that if a project has a large number of atoms, it will run slower on a GPU with a small number of stream processors.


We’ve also graphed the peak power consumption of our test PC with a single graphics card installed when folding.


For analysis of these results read the Conclusion.