RX 470/480/570/580/590
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

GPU Folding Overview RX 470/480/570/580/590

Folding@Home PPD for the RX 470/480/570/580/590 represents the averages of folding work unit samples collected from a wide variety of users different computer hardware configurations.

Average values are used to best represent folding PPD performance of a RX 470/480/570/580/590 across different F@H projects and user variables such as power settings, overclocks, operating system and specific work units which can yield wildly different highs and lows for PPD scores on the same GPU platform.

Stats as ofSunday, 26 April 2026 03:03:30

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GPU PPD Average All OS

543,496

Average of 500 most recent PPD samples.

Work Unit Samples All OS

37,501

All-time sample volume for this GPU profile.

Overall Rank All GPUs

#213

Ranked 213 of 439 tracked GPUs.

Brand Rank AMD GPUs

#45

Ranked 45 of 133 AMD GPUs.

Folding STATISTICS Ellesmere XT [RX 470/480/570/580/590] - AMD

DATA SAMPLES INFO
Filter applied, PPD samples all time
AVERAGE FOLDING PERFORMANCE
Based on ALL available PPD samples by filter
WORK UNIT PPD RECORDS
All Time
OS FILTER SAMPLES PPD
WU Per 24hrs
Time Per WU
Points Per WU
BEST PPD
WORST PPD
All OS AVG 37501 325,185 3.57 6 hrs 43 mins 91,044 21,585,420 6,000
Linux 4310 398,082 8.14 2 hrs 57 mins 48,900 21,585,420 165,784
Windows 33191 315,719 3.27 7 hrs 20 mins 96,516 17,498,231 6,000

12 WEEK AVG PPD CHANGE VS. WORK UNITS AVAILABLE - RX 470/480/570/580/590

GPU PPD average changes week to week for a number of reasons such as credit for type of projects/causes available, varience in work unit difficulty, OS/GPU drivers, folding cores, GPU models, clocks, power targets etc.

The chart below serves as a way to see historical week to week performance change as PPD for a GPU is never a constant, as the work units processed are always changing.

Recent Work Unit Performance - RX 470/480/570/580/590

Average PPD is impacted by the types of research work units being done as they return different amounts of points and take different amounts of time.

The following shows the work unit allocation of research causes to better understand changes in PPD over time for the RX 470/480/570/580/590.

24 HOUR WU ALLOCATION

Research Percent
No Data For This Reporting Period.

7 DAY WU ALLOCATION

Research Percent
No Data For This Reporting Period.

12 WEEK WU ALLOCATION

Research Percent
SUCROSE TRANSPORT PLANTS
100%

Recent Work Unit Performance Clusters - RX 470/480/570/580/590

The following visualization illustrates the PPD / Credit allocation of work units across different research causes, providing insight into how PPD varies by work unit PPD samples for the RX 470/480/570/580/590.

This analysis helps better understand the relationship between research causes and PPD/Credit, highlighting any performance trends as clusters or anomalies as outliers.

RX 470/480/570/580/590 kWh POWER CONSUMPTION & COST

Power consumption information for the RX 470/480/570/580/590 is based on an average wattage taken from vendor information for the lowest and highest power draws for the GPU under folding@home compute loads.

Wattage information is only for the GPU and does not include the host computers power usage.

GPU Power Draw
Watts - TDP
Daily Power Usage
kWh
Points per
kWh
Daily Cost at $0.10
per kWh
Power Cost
per 1m Points
185 W 4.44 kWh 122,409 $0.44 $0.817

RX 470/480/570/580/590 COMPUTE VS kWH USAGE DAY, MONTH, WEEK & YEAR

Folding@Home compute projections for the RX 470/480/570/580/590 can be used to help inform long term point goals and related costs based on 24/7 usage.

Duration Nick Name Points
Average
Work Units
Average
Power Usage
kWh
Power Cost
at $0.10 per kWh
Day PPD 543,496 3.05 4.44 kWh $0.44
Week PPW 3,804,472 21.35 31.08 kWh $3.11
Month PPM 16,531,336 92.77 135.05 kWh $13.51
Year PPY 198,376,040 1113.18 1620.60 kWh $162.06

5 BEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - RX 470/480/570/580/590

The following data is the average PPD values for RX 470/480/570/580/590 project work units based on multiple samples collected via the use of our Folding@Home Web Client.

PPD
Rank
Project
ID
Cause
Research
PPD
Average
Points WU
Average
WUs Day
Average
WU Time
Average
1 17919 Malaria 3,564,856 144,103 24.74 0 hrs 58 mins
2 12601 Alchemical-Binding-Energy 821,178 137,451 5.97 4 hrs 1 mins
3 15303 cancer 632,287 211,296 2.99 8 hrs 1 mins
4 12457 influenza 619,006 46,745 13.24 1 hrs 49 mins
5 17660 FoldingGPU-Core27-Test 612,114 97,838 6.26 3 hrs 50 mins

5 LOWEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - RX 470/480/570/580/590

The following data is the average PPD values for RX 470/480/570/580/590 project work units based on multiple samples collected via the use of our Folding@Home Web Client.

PPD
Rank
Project
ID
Cause
Research
PPD
Average
Points WU
Average
WUs Day
Average
WU Time
Average
1 12104 Peptide-Conformation-Modeling 132,036 115,152 1.15 20 hrs 56 mins
2 18911 cancer 145,212 49,233 2.95 8 hrs 8 mins
3 12434 biofilm 146,179 47,907 3.05 7 hrs 52 mins
4 18452 cancer 165,810 69,526 2.38 10 hrs 4 mins
5 18451 cancer 171,806 56,706 3.03 7 hrs 55 mins