GPU suggestion: gtx 750ti

[Dot Yet]

So, I went ahead an bought a much cheaper card :) GT 720 for CAD70!

followed the instructions mentioned here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-setup-xorg-with-nvidias-driver.52311/,
used the drives from x11/nvidia-driver binary package.

Happy Camper!!

Wonderful graphics! and 4k videos look amazing :) dual monitor setup, both
monitors discovered automatically, I just had to fix their placement in
xfce.

Thanks everyone for their opinion and help. Enjoy the weekend!

tjx.
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> wrote:

> Am 04.09.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Dot Yet:
> > Seems 950 is supported now though:
> >
> > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us
>
> Yes, there is a binary driver for 950 at NVidia, but AFAIK it does not
> exist as a port on FreeBSD until now.
>
> Because there a some new internal changes in the driver and its file and
> directory structure, the port has to be adopted to these changes. O.
> Hartmann makes a suggestion for a patch almost one month ago [1].
>
> HTH,
> Rainer
>
> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202228
>
> >
> > thx.
> > .
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dot Yet <dot.yet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> makes sense. I am very likely to revert back to haswell when support for
> >> it is there and move this card over to one of the other machines.
> >>
> >> so, based on what you said, for now 950 is not an appropriate choice? is
> >> it correct?
> >>
> >> thx.
> >> .
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jan Bramkamp <crest at rlwinm.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 04/09/15 16:34, Dot Yet wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second
> gpu
> >>>> to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing
> nvidia
> >>>> gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is
> capable
> >>>> of
> >>>> hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look
> for? I
> >>>> am
> >>>> not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes a Nvidia GTX 750ti is supported by the closed source binary driver
> >>> according to https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx (enter your
> data
> >>> and you end up at
> >>> https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us).
> >>>
> >>> A GTX 750ti is a bit overpowered for light desktop and media usage but
> >>> based on a dated microarchitecture and lacks hardware support for the
> >>> upcoming h.265 video codec.
> >>>
> >>> Nvidia drops support for old hardware in their driver from time to time
> >>> and newer chips have a lower idle power consumption for a given peak
> >>> performance so you might want to look for a GPU with a newer
> >>> microarchitecture. The GTX950 would be a good fit but the nvidia driver
> >>> port is not yet up to version 352.41 which adds support for the GTX950.
>
>