Hi,

Am Mi 10 Dez 2014 20:03:36 CET
schrieb Jordi Besora <[email protected]>:

> current monitor, and I'll be getting a Dell U2713H. In order to drive
> it and take full advantage of it I'll need a newer, more powerful
> graphics card, with 30 bpp and a DisplayPort connection.
> 
> Having read about the monitor and possible card companions, and about
> cards and darktable and OpenCL, I'm considering an Nvidia Quadro
> K620, 2GB, which apparently has all I need at an affordable(ish)
> price
> ( http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product/sku/11134843/mfg_partno/J3G87AT).
...
> Before I part with my money, I'd like to know what the experts in the
> list think of the setup I'm planning. Does anyone have a similar
> setup? Will it work well with darktable?
 
I have done a similar upgrade a short time ago: I am using an nvidia GTX
750Ti, with 2GB GDDR5 RAM, connected via DisplayPort to the LG 27EA83,
with a resolution of 2560 * 1440. OpenCL works fine (no Quadro card
needed, the Linux driver offers this also for "regular" cards). I tried
30bpp, it worked in general, but darktable downscales the output to
24bpp, so I have no use for it. I guess we can hope for 30bpp support
at some future point, but right now 30bpp seems to make a difference
only in krita, plus there are some applications showing just a black
window in 30bpp (one of those was libreoffice, I think).

I didn't have much choice in terms of graphics card, since my power
supply has no additional connection for it, but the 750Ti seems to be a
good card. My system is rather old, with an old quadcore Phenom 810, so
the OpenCL acceleration is quite noticeable.

The only part I'm still wondering about is the HD sound out built into
the monitor: using the monitor in DisplayPort 1.0 mode, sound works
mostly (except some firefox/flash strangeness), in Displayport 1.2 mode
sound doesn't work at all.

Michael

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