From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Sep 4 18:39:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D019CB10E for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from fmailer.gwdg.de (fmailer.gwdg.de [134.76.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 961101BCF for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from um-excht-a01.um.gwdg.de ([134.76.11.221] helo=email.gwdg.de) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXugo-0001N9-Qn; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:22:14 +0200 Received: from krabat.raven.hur (79.210.241.162) by email.gwdg.de (134.76.9.210) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:22:14 +0200 Subject: Re: GPU suggestion: gtx 750ti To: Dot Yet References: <55E9B5AF.50106@rlwinm.de> CC: Jan Bramkamp , FreeBSD stable From: Rainer Hurling X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55E9D33E.80009@gwdg.de> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:22:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by clamav X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:39:10 -0000 Am 04.09.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Dot Yet: > Seems 950 is supported now though: > > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us Yes, there is a binary driver for 950 at NVidia, but AFAIK it does not exist as a port on FreeBSD until now. Because there a some new internal changes in the driver and its file and directory structure, the port has to be adopted to these changes. O. Hartmann makes a suggestion for a patch almost one month ago [1]. HTH, Rainer [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202228 > > thx. > . > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dot Yet wrote: > >> makes sense. I am very likely to revert back to haswell when support for >> it is there and move this card over to one of the other machines. >> >> so, based on what you said, for now 950 is not an appropriate choice? is >> it correct? >> >> thx. >> . >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jan Bramkamp wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 04/09/15 16:34, Dot Yet wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second gpu >>>> to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing nvidia >>>> gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is capable >>>> of >>>> hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look for? I >>>> am >>>> not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc. >>>> >>>> Please let me know. >>>> >>> >>> Yes a Nvidia GTX 750ti is supported by the closed source binary driver >>> according to https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx (enter your data >>> and you end up at >>> https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us). >>> >>> A GTX 750ti is a bit overpowered for light desktop and media usage but >>> based on a dated microarchitecture and lacks hardware support for the >>> upcoming h.265 video codec. >>> >>> Nvidia drops support for old hardware in their driver from time to time >>> and newer chips have a lower idle power consumption for a given peak >>> performance so you might want to look for a GPU with a newer >>> microarchitecture. The GTX950 would be a good fit but the nvidia driver >>> port is not yet up to version 352.41 which adds support for the GTX950.