Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:25:14 +0000 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: x11@freebsd.org, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old NVIDIA card, new FreeBSD = failure? Message-ID: <778F35B8-10F3-4D4D-8200-A235FD9A0762@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <24790.13300.679983.900189@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <uZ6VybGvR6ddjj1CVAd0CMNpgvfbc65oLMD5y8r7OPur5j7flNkWuLoxJAueOHkyAJoOW68fE1zpTrvk18VPxSU3drao03Lv0n8UM6ge3y0=@protonmail.com> <36919.1624649280@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <24790.13300.679983.900189@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On June 25, 2021 7:52:20 PM UTC, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > I use AMD, not Nvidia, but I have been looking for over a year >for a low end card actively supported by drm-kmod and/or >drm-current-kmod. Figuring out which chipsets they support ... let's >just call it both educational and frustrating. > (For anyone in my position: I _think_ the RX 460 and above >support GCN 2.1, which is what I _think_ is the bottom-end >specification. Cards matching this number seem to start at about >US $50.) Hi, GCN is the name of the GPU architecture, not something a GPU "supports".. Polaris generation (RX 460-590) GPUs are GCN 4.0. Yes, they are a very good option. But you can use older GCN just as well. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ is a good resource for searching through all the models. In the "Architecture" selector, you can choose any GCN, as well as RDNA 1. Just not RDNA 2 yet.
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