Curiosity

[Tormond]

Are teh Athlons just much better at folding than the P4s? Looking at EM3 My athlon seems to be doing about 1 Frame per 8 min (per CPU) (X2 4400+) My P933 about 1 Frame per 27 Min (It is a dual 933 and that is per CPU) and I just installed a P4 3.2Ghz 800FSB w/HT and it is only putting out about 1 frame per 17 min (per CPU). This just seems wrong to me or have I just been hiting the pipe too hard lately?

 

[chileman]

It all depends on what protein you're chewing through on which CPU. AMD flies through Tinkers, but sucks as Villins (I get 25ppd on my 2100+ w/ them). But P4's can just crank through QMDs. Too bad Stanford doesn't match CPU to Protein better, it'd be in their best interest.

 

[Tormond]

well right now the P4 and the AMD are both working on Ambers and getting the above numbers (well one of the cores on the X2 has a Gromac)

 

[towert7]

I "think" my dad has an AMD XP 1800+ (which ever one ran at 1535mhz).

It averages 140PPD.
I have a P4 2.8GHz with HT running two consoles, which averages 235PPD. So in my case the AMD XP is a tad bit better, especially considering the P4 is running 2 consoles.
My AMD Opteron 252 @ 2.6GHz averages 350PPD
A P3 800mhz averages about 75PPD (similar to the AMD XP)

Compared to the Pentium M, these are very inefficient. My Pentium M 1.5GHz laptop averages 225PPD, much better then the others, and uses much less power ^_^.

~Hope this helps