Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:12:04 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What are good graphic cards for X, low-end and high-end Message-ID: <20180704211204.1d38cf21.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <1530699798.1544.1@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> References: <20180704101427.1e6d2ece.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <1530699798.1544.1@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology>
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Hi, On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:23:18 +0300 Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:14 AM, Erich Dollansky > <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> wrote: > > > > I am currently planning a new computer. I have check the wiki but I > > also would like to get real-life experience here. I have not decided > > yet of I should get a cheap card just for software development and > > watching videos or a good card also usable for processing videos. > > > > What cards do you use for these purposes? > > Video cards aren't that involved in... processing videos :) > That's why they're often called graphics cards these days. > it was different those days. > So you need a powerful GPU if you want to: > > - play 3D games > - use 3D CAD and modeling applications > - run compute tasks like offline 3D rendering (path tracing), mining > buttcoins, deep learning, folding@home... and, yes, rendering some > effects in some video editors, but the key word is "some" > These are all things not planned for this machine. As the machine should be Ryzen based, it still needs some kind of graphics card. > Now, GPUs also have onboard hardware video codecs, and that can help > with watching videos, if you get it to work (have to use a dedicated > player right now, since web browsers don't support VAAPI yet, except > for some unofficial forks; also YouTube prefers VP9 and only the > newest (ish) GPUs have a VP9 codec, but you can ask YouTube for > H.264...) This is only useful for laptops and other mobile devices. > On a desktop, you don't have to care, the beefy CPU will easily > decode anything. > > Oh, also these codecs can *en*code videos, but the quality per > bitrate is always worse in hardware codecs than software, so you only > really want this for recording gameplay (like ReLive/ShadowPlay). > > So, finally, recommendations -- well, one big recommendation: AMD > Polaris. > If you like (relatively high end) gaming, you might want the top tier > one (Radeon RX 480/580) or the one below (470/570). > Otherwise, RX 460/560. > > FreeBSD support is excellent with drm-next-kmod :) > Our standard suppliers lists mainly RX570/580 cards from different manufacturers. All around the same price region. So, I will get what it in stock the day I will finally hot the shop. Thanks! Erich
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