GeForce GTX 980
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

GPU Folding Overview GeForce GTX 980

Folding@Home PPD for the GeForce GTX 980 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 GeForce GTX 980 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 ofTuesday, 23 June 2026 15:02:37

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GPU PPD Average All OS

669,106

Average of 500 most recent PPD samples.

Work Unit Samples All OS

62,651

All-time sample volume for this GPU profile.

Overall Rank All GPUs

#196

Ranked 196 of 441 tracked GPUs.

Brand Rank Nvidia GPUs

#157

Ranked 157 of 294 Nvidia GPUs.

Folding STATISTICS GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] 4612 - Nvidia

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 62651 691,085 4.12 5 hrs 49 mins 167,550 44,690,193 4,558
Linux 3754 545,849 3.09 7 hrs 45 mins 176,402 2,490,402 172,878
Windows 58870 700,413 4.19 5 hrs 43 mins 167,026 44,690,193 4,558

Recent Work Unit Performance - GeForce GTX 980

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 GeForce GTX 980.

No work unit data recorded for the GeForce GTX 980 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 - GeForce GTX 980

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 GeForce GTX 980.

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

GeForce GTX 980 kWh POWER CONSUMPTION & COST

Power consumption information for the GeForce GTX 980 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
166 W 3.98 kWh 167,948 $0.40 $0.595

GeForce GTX 980 COMPUTE VS kWH USAGE DAY, MONTH, WEEK & YEAR

Folding@Home compute projections for the GeForce GTX 980 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 669,106 12.10 3.98 kWh $0.40
Week PPW 4,683,742 84.69 27.89 kWh $2.79
Month PPM 20,351,974 367.99 121.18 kWh $12.12
Year PPY 244,223,690 4415.86 1454.16 kWh $145.42

5 BEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - GeForce GTX 980

The following data is the average PPD values for GeForce GTX 980 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 12112 Peptide-Conformation-Modeling 2,246,400 6,000 374.40 0 hrs 4 mins
2 12110 Peptide-Conformation-Modeling 2,227,497 46,146 48.27 0 hrs 30 mins
3 12212 dud-e 1,140,130 87,856 12.98 1 hrs 51 mins
4 12272 Protein-Simulation 1,104,317 141,115 7.83 3 hrs 4 mins
5 12267 Protein-Simulation-Drug-Discovery 1,086,837 131,899 8.24 2 hrs 55 mins

5 LOWEST PPD RESEARCH PROJECTS - GeForce GTX 980

The following data is the average PPD values for GeForce GTX 980 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 17660 FoldingGPU-Core27-Test 31,559 20,450 1.54 15 hrs 33 mins
2 17657 GPU-Core-Testing 37,894 6,947 5.45 4 hrs 24 mins
3 13463 covid-19 193,335 10,777 17.94 1 hrs 20 mins
4 12601 Alchemical-Binding-Energy 229,145 46,725 4.90 4 hrs 54 mins
5 12600 Alchemical-Binding-Free-Energy 274,577 2,625 104.60 0 hrs 14 mins