From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Sep 4 15:16:11 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 845309CA26B for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from smtp.rlwinm.de (smtp.rlwinm.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:201:31ef::e]) (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 4D3332ED for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from crest.local (unknown [87.253.189.132]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.rlwinm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C4A8468A3 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:16:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: GPU suggestion: gtx 750ti To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: From: Jan Bramkamp Message-ID: <55E9B5AF.50106@rlwinm.de> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:15:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:16:11 -0000 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.