Hi Ulrich, sounds interesting. What are your experiences with driver quality? Have yyou used the open source version or the binary blob? My last test with AMD (long time ago) were really disappointing according the system fails because of the AMD driver.
Best regards Karsten Am Freitag, 8. November 2013, 21:54:15 schrieb Ulrich Pegelow: > Hi, > > let's hope there is a user who has tested the two variants and can come > up with some first hand experience. Else it will be difficult to get a > reco. > > As an alternative you could have a look at the many graphic card > benchmarking data available on the net. Of course benchmarking always is > a kind of black art. That said you should specifically look for GPGPU > benchmarking figures rather than the classical gaming test suites. > > My little bit of experience comes from the phase when I needed to decide > between NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti versus AMD HD7950 (both come at more or less > the same price). I checked both devices physically with darktable and > found the NVIDIA to be a big disappointment and the HD7950 to really > rock. This was fitting well to almost all published GPGPU benchmarks: > the 660Ti is optimized for gaming whereas the HD7950 is a monster when > it comes to computing. > > Ulrich > > Am 08.11.2013 20:25, schrieb Magnus Berg: > > Hi! > > > > I am going to buy a new computer. On that I will continue to run Debian > > Sid. My question is that is the best craphic card to chose if my target > > is maximal power then using Dark Table. Is it good to have a lot of > > graphic memory (have Dark Table use of 4 GB) or is it better to chose a > > faster graphic processor and less graphic memory? > > Right now - before you answer - I look at a MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming > > 4GB PhysX. But is it better to chose a GTX 770 with only 2 GB memory. > > They cost, close to, the same. > > > > I'm looking forward for your answers. > > Magnus Berg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and > register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
