Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:57:47 +0100 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested upgrade for a GeForce GT 450 Message-ID: <CAM8r67BBTuywp%2B2QS07sER%2BpHbAmtkETF3YdX_j_pHdpJiB6Xw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 6:48 AM Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> wrote: > So before I jump into the wilds of the Nvidia forums and other groups, I > thought I would ask here. I would like to hear any recommendations for the > new Nvidia graphics from this list as I tend to find most of the > recommendations useful. Some time ago I have switched to GF1030 because it was silent (no fan) and low power (30W) and for display it was enough. 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. 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. On the other hand the graphics stack destruction that comes from Linux KMS/DRM also impacts FreeBSD and it turns out that you neither can use OpenCL nor even stable efficient graphics because RX580 driver crashes my workstation. And since the time I have purchased RX580 until now its price went over 50% down and still I have no use of this card on FreeBSD :-( In this situation GF1030 seems inexpensive and reasonable solution. At least it works. -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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