POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Hardware : Re: Hardware Server Time
28 Jul 2024 20:33:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hardware  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 27 Dec 2013 15:08:26
Message: <52bdde3a@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 18:30:21 +0100, Le_Forgeron wrote:

> Le 27/12/2013 18:16, Saul Luizaga nous fit lire :
>> Why so obsessed with Nvidia? B uy the latest ATI graphics cards, great
>> performance, maybe a little better than Nvidia and less expensive.

At least on Linux, nVidia cards can be used for things like GPU rendering 
in Blender.  The ATI cards don't work for that AFAIK.

> with Linux, the ATI cards suck. At least that was my experience with
> them, so I went Nvidia. (with multiscreen on linux, Ati was a PITA)
> The nvidia driver taints the kernel, but at least they works.

The radeon drivers are better now, though Catalyst still seems to have 
problems here and there.

Jim


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