Suggestions for new graphics card?

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello -x11@,
>
> I'm currently running 10.0-BETA1 with an Intel 82Q35 integrated graphics
> chipset. I'm pleased as punch that everything seems to "just work", but this
> hardware won't drive the 2560x1440 display that I've got my eye on. I went
> looking for information about cards supported by FreeBSD, and I found our
> wiki to be a little... confusing.
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg#Working_Graphics_Cards seems to claim that
> xorg-server 1.7.7 is only tested with the Virtualbox "device", not Intel,
> AMD/ATI or nVidia.
>
> According to https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU, the RV630 is the only chipset
> not known to not work (not quite the same as "known to work"), which
> corresponds to... the Radeon HD 2600 (six years old)?
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests says that "Nvidia currently
> supports the FreeBSD/i386 platform", but this information is from 2010, and
> my understanding is that things change quickly in the graphics driver space.
>
> So... is there such a thing as a graphics card I can buy today that will
> "just work" with FreeBSD 10 and/or -CURRENT?

Any nvidia card that you can fit into a slot in your computer will
work 100% in FreeBSD (thats 2d/3d acceleration, video decode offload,
power management, randr etc) using nvidia supplied binary drivers for
i386 and amd64. The only exceptions are laptops with both intel
graphics and nvidia "optimus" graphics (where the nvidia card writes
to the intel card's framebuffer), which do not work yet.

Wikis can be notoriously out of date, so I wouldn't trust any of the
information on wiki.freebsd.org without verifying it from real
documentation/code.

Since the proprietary nvidia drivers are so good, that is what I always use.

Cheers

Tom