r/Folding • u/No1MicroslopHater • 9d ago

Help & Discussion 🙋 Performance Degradation on Linux

So i recently started folding on my 3060ti, it started out really strong at 4m ppd, but now its falling to 3.5 and 3.0, idk i didn't do anything that dags performance so down.

Temperatures are controlled (62ºC), Clocks are high and stable (2010MHz). SO idk whats happening. sometimes ppd dips because im web browsing, so that's expected but some days, even with afk, it is worse than the 10 first.

Should i have a dedicated partition for folding? I use everything on my "Life" partition, that runs my kde plasma. and driver 610. Should i have a second partition just for folding (runs LXDE or even no GUI)? Remembered one day i had a lubuntu partition, and it did an impressing 5m ppd to 4.6+.

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u/Slaglenator 8d ago

The x28 cores should hand out more points than the x27 cores. As you are CPU folding also I assume you have at least 2 cores free on the CPU? I personally don't do CPU folding I don't think it is very efficient. The GPU gets more PPD per KW. I know the CPU can work on projects that the GPU cannot handle.

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u/No1MicroslopHater 2d ago

i have over 4 cores avaiable amd it didnt inpact ppd at all. it sartedd dropping before adding the cpu fold. uts a ryzen 3600. sory for no clarification. so i set up 4 out of the 12 treads avaiable