Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 10:16:19 -0600 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested upgrade for a GeForce GT 450 Message-ID: <689BA65A-1E05-43C3-9154-93689B187FAB@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAM8r67BBTuywp%2B2QS07sER%2BpHbAmtkETF3YdX_j_pHdpJiB6Xw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67BBTuywp%2B2QS07sER%2BpHbAmtkETF3YdX_j_pHdpJiB6Xw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Feb 7, 2021, at 9:57 AM, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > Some time ago I have switched to GF1030 because it was silent (no fan) > and low power (30W) and for display it was enough. >=20 > 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. And it has been so at least for as long as I dare to remember which is = some 20 years. > 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. >=20 And during all that 20 years AMD always was my savior=E2=80=A6 I second = what you say. Also, NVIDIA obsoletes hardware that is still decent, = which is another source of pain in you know where. Valeri > 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 :-( >=20 > In this situation GF1030 seems inexpensive and reasonable solution. At > least it works. >=20 > --=20 > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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