On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 at 12:43 Vasilis Yiannakos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for all your replies. > > As for benchmarks, they are generally game-oriented and I feel that they > don't reflect everyday reality... > > The GPU could be a possible update, but I don't think this could overfill > the technological gap between my CPU and a new A10 - FX8300. I' ve run > darktable on a friend's A8 with 8GB DD3 (with on-cpu graphics) and it went > significantly better than on my system. The tech gap is simply too big, > that I find it meaningless to keep investing on the same machine... > > I just went through the exercise of building a new PC, and found that this article helped immensely (it does benchmarks with darktable on linux, with various GPU, and compares against a really fast CPU as well): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=darktable-22-amdnv&num=4 The GPU actually helps a _lot_, especially with respect to Linux OpenCL performance. I ended up getting an RX 460 4GB (I think vram does make a big difference for photo processing, but am not 100% sure). However, audio over DisplayPort doesn't work with the AMD driver, so YMMV. Kelvie -- -- Kelvie Wong ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
