Yes, but …
I’ve been a long time (30 years) user of Nvidia cards on Linux/Unix having
learned the hard way that other cards just aren’t as well supported. However
that has changed a bit in recent years with AMD cards being much better
supported than in days of old and today I consider either Nvidia or AMD as
generally acceptable.
At the moment I am using an AMD card due to the absolute nonsense of there
being no Nvidia driver which supported both the opencl acceleration needed for
darktable and the X versions needed for driving the monitor calibration devices
you need for a colour managed setup. Depending on the driver you pick you
could have one or the other but not both so I had to go AMD in the end – which
is working great by the way.
I’m not sure if this restriction on Nvidia drivers is still current, it was the
case when I last checked a year ago though, so you have been warned ☺
From: Richard Wonka [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 09 June 2014 09:02
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] Fwd: Graphics-card compatibility question
agreed. AMD cards have given me nothing but headaches since 1999 .
I stay as far away from them as I can manage.
Richard
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On Jun 9, 2014 2:55 AM, "Pascal Obry" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Colin,
> I'm about to buy a new desktop computer. The card they provide by
> default is:
>
>
> AMD FirePro V4900 Pro3D 1GB PCIe 2.1 x16 Graphics Card (Single slot)
Frankly I would go with an NVIDIA card, I always have problems with AMD
drivers on GNU/Linux. So since at least 5 years I'm always using NVIDIA,
maybe the situation has improved with AMD? Let see what are the feedback
from others...
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