New AMD GPU driver improves folding performance

[WYP]

Hey Guys, just letting you know that AMDs recent 14.4 drivers for both linux and windows improves folding performance by 5-10%.

Should help you AMD boys get a few more work units done.

We’re excited to announce that AMD has recently updated their GPU drivers from version 13.x series to 14.x series. Version 14.x includes updated OpenCL code that helps Folding@home run faster on GPUs (using fahcore_17). This results in a 5-10% improvement in performance. This should result in more points for some of the AMD GPU users. The 14.4 drivers are available both for Windows and Linux.

Windows driver is available here and Linux drivers are available here.

Source - folding@home

 

[sheroo]

Nice heads up - thanks dude.

 

[Gardella]

I noticed a bump in my 7950 recently and figured it had to do with the new drivers or new WU's perhaps - thanks for confirming and yay!!!

 

[stevehat1]

The improvement began with the 14.1 beta drivers.

I have rigs running 14.1 beta, 14.3 beta and 14.4. all three seem to perform about the same.