Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

GPU Folding Overview Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950

Folding@Home PPD for the Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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 Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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 03:04:04

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GPU PPD Average All OS

260,584

Average of 500 most recent PPD samples.

Work Unit Samples All OS

9,537

All-time sample volume for this GPU profile.

Overall Rank All GPUs

#268

Ranked 268 of 439 tracked GPUs.

Brand Rank AMD GPUs

#61

Ranked 61 of 133 AMD GPUs.

Folding STATISTICS Tahiti PRO [Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950] - 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 9537 259,245 2.56 9 hrs 22 mins 101,213 488,276 19,105
Linux 450 113,279 1.54 15 hrs 32 mins 73,321 150,343 46,817
Windows 9087 266,473 2.60 9 hrs 14 mins 102,594 488,276 19,105

Recent Work Unit Performance - Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950

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 Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950.

No work unit data recorded for the Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 in the past 12 weeks.

Data is provided in legacy mode until new work units are folded using our web client.

Recent Work Unit Performance Clusters - Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950

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 Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950.

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

Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 kWh POWER CONSUMPTION & COST

Power consumption information for the Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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
225 W 5.40 kWh 48,256 $0.54 $2.072

Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 COMPUTE VS kWH USAGE DAY, MONTH, WEEK & YEAR

Folding@Home compute projections for the Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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 260,584 2.03 5.40 kWh $0.54
Week PPW 1,824,088 14.18 37.80 kWh $3.78
Month PPM 7,926,096 61.61 164.25 kWh $16.43
Year PPY 95,113,160 739.27 1971.00 kWh $197.10

5 BEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950

The following data is the average PPD values for Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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 18025 cancer 488,276 172,931 2.82 8 hrs 30 mins
2 14561 covid-19 389,009 118,232 3.29 7 hrs 18 mins
3 17320 covid-19 377,275 233,078 1.62 14 hrs 50 mins
4 17322 covid-19 368,637 136,961 2.69 8 hrs 55 mins
5 17321 covid-19 364,876 213,371 1.71 14 hrs 2 mins

5 LOWEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950

The following data is the average PPD values for Radeon R9 280/HD 7900/8950 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 16474 cancer 92,416 69,600 1.33 18 hrs 4 mins
2 13429 covid-19 98,001 8,101 12.10 1 hrs 59 mins
3 16473 cancer 117,014 95,963 1.22 19 hrs 41 mins
4 16918 cancer 125,010 78,275 1.60 15 hrs 2 mins
5 13444 covid-19 145,230 86,448 1.68 14 hrs 17 mins