Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:03:04 -0400 From: Dot Yet <dot.yet@gmail.com> To: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Cc: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GPU suggestion: gtx 750ti Message-ID: <CA%2Bar7K71_nR5vj0qSaP%2B6_VYyMP%2BW5hOAWxi2J8dFFSr0fwzCw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55E9D33E.80009@gwdg.de> References: <CA%2Bar7K43RPdDi%2BNveij_pe6qG2A8zXzZ08phi=YvbJYF37jWDQ@mail.gmail.com> <55E9B5AF.50106@rlwinm.de> <CA%2Bar7K6XvqP4a_7xc8MsL=qFWXnQsgxokMtd35jCpGa2QaetWg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2Bar7K6NCO1N637Xh=hXDvrvTJ1UECmGGfDqJPb=csxogCT6dQ@mail.gmail.com> <55E9D33E.80009@gwdg.de>
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So, I went ahead an bought a much cheaper card :) GT 720 for CAD70! followed the instructions mentioned here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-setup-xorg-with-nvidias-driver.52311/, used the drives from x11/nvidia-driver binary package. Happy Camper!! Wonderful graphics! and 4k videos look amazing :) dual monitor setup, both monitors discovered automatically, I just had to fix their placement in xfce. Thanks everyone for their opinion and help. Enjoy the weekend! tjx. . On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> wrote: > 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 <dot.yet@gmail.com> 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 <crest@rlwinm.de> 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. > >
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