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ATI Radeon
Though at present ATI Radeon cards do not support as many projects as Nvidia cards, ATI's have a very high performance in those projects that they do. Therefore, when you are active in one of those projects, you might want to consider upgrading to a recent Radeon card.
- Collatz Conjecture has various applications for Ati/AMD cards, ranging from CAL/Brook applications for Windows and Windows 64bit to OpenCL applications for Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.5 and later.
- DistrRTgen has an application for Ati/AMD OpenCL capable cards (Windows only).
- DNETC@Home (Windows and Linux 32bit) This is by now a Retired project Succeeded by the Moo! Wrapper.
- Einstein@Home has a Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) application for Ati/AMD OpenCL capable cards (Windows and Linux).
- Milkyway@home (OpenCL support and Double precision GPU required, so a Radeon 47xx, 48xx, 58xx, 59xx, 69xx, 77xx, 78xx, 79xx; FirePro V87xx, V78xx, V88xx, V98xx; FireStream 92xx, 93xx) (Windows only)
- Moo! (Driver v10.4 or later, Ati Runtime (not older AMD), Minimum device memory 250MB.
- POEM@Home has a POEM++ OpenCL application for Ati/AMD OpenCL capable cards (Windows and Linux).
- PrimeGrid (Proth Prime Search (Sieve) (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X; OpenCL support required, so a Radeon HD4xxx -or equivalent FirePro/FireStream- or higher)
- Seti@Home can be run on Ati/AMD cards using an application from Lunatics. Be careful, not for the faint of heart. Read the instructions and try to understand them before you proceed!
- SETI@home Beta (Windows only)
- World Community Grid is on the verge of launching a Windows GPU client. An OpenCL 1.1 capable card is needed, so HD 5xxx and higher. The test ran on a Llano APU as well.
You will -at this moment- generally get the most performance out of the latest and highest models Radeon cards, the 58xx, 59xx, 69xx, 77xx, 78xx and 79xx families. Mind you: not all Radeon 5xxx cards have the same features, e.g. a feature like double precision -needed for Milkyway@home- is NOT to be found in a HD 57xx or lower, nor in the HD 68xx series. Radeon cards are not the only cards manufactured by Ati/AMD that support double precision either.
- Download and install the latest version of the BOINC software.
Run BOINC, and look at the Messages. If BOINC reports a GPU, your current driver is OK. Otherwise
It never hurts to check whether there is a more recent driver though.
- By default, your GPU will be used only when you are not using the computer; otherwise graphical updates become jerky. If you want to use the GPU all the time, you must change your preferences.
- You can configure BOINC to not use GPUs when particular applications are running.
- You can configure BOINC to not use specific GPUs on a multi-GPU system.
- If you have questions or problems related to GPUs, check the BOINCFAQ.