Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:43:29 -0500 From: LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Suggested upgrade for a GeForce GT 450 Message-ID: <20210207164329.3f0df00c@dismail.de> In-Reply-To: <20210207204810.d575ae00.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67BBTuywp%2B2QS07sER%2BpHbAmtkETF3YdX_j_pHdpJiB6Xw@mail.gmail.com> <20210207204810.d575ae00.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:48:10 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:57:47 +0100, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > However, it turns out that nVidia in a nightmare for Open-Source, so > > you cannot do anything except what they give you with a binary blob > > driver, that is basic display stuff. If you want to do OpenCL or > > similar then forget nVidia. >=20 > That is also my individual experience with nVidia. While there > are open source drivers, they're not as good as the binary ones > supplied by nVidia, so if you expect 3D stuff to work (and most > desktop environemnts today cannot work without them), you will > have to use the original nVidia drivers, because neither "nv" > nor "nouveau" would provide more functionality and performance > than "vesa" (as "lowest common denominator") would. >=20 >=20 >=20 > > After 20 years of being loyal customer of nVidia I have switched to > > AMD RADEON RX580 simply because they support Open-Source while > > nVidia does not. >=20 > In the past, ATi had excellent open source support for all the > features of the graphics card, and there was one (!) driver that > supported them (named "ati"). Worked out of the box, no further > fiddling with xorg.conf options or XML files... :-) >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 How is Intel support. I am looking for one old(er) computer and it has Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 and another Intel HD Graphics 640. Are they okay for Blender and FreeCAD, please?=20 Thank you. --=20 =E2=80=9CWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because t= hey have to say something.=E2=80=9D --Plato
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