Hi, actually, darktable profits much more from OpenCL support than from better CPUs/more cores etc.
If at all possible, try to get OpenCL working. This involves cards from NVidia or AMD, and using their closed-source drivers. The NVidia drivers are traditionally better at continuing to support older hardware, while people on the list had AMD drop support for their reasonable middle-aged card. On the other hand, there seem to be more creative ways to get a half-installed AMD driver to work on systems it is not intended for. I'm happy with a NVidia card (750 Ti, 2GB RAM), used with the boring closed-source driver, this makes a huge difference on my aging quadcore. If I get your proposed configuration right, this might mean installing a 4GB gaming graphics card on a headless system -- I think it is worth it. But I wonder if it is possible to get the colors right on a TV, is calibration possible for a TV backend? Cheers Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Journeyman [mailto:j...@storiepvtride.it] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 23:21 An: darktable-user@lists.darktable.org Betreff: Re: [darktable-user] Which config for Darktable On 22/06/2017 22:26, Germano Massullo wrote: > Forget using OpenCL without proprietary drivers, but there is a way to > use them without having to install it permanently: if you use a Radeon > RX card you can simply unpack the proprietary OpenCL driver somewhere > and let darktable use it. > Concerning hardware, I suggest you to buy a Ryzen CPU and a RX Radeon > graphic card I can confirm that Darktable should take great advantage of multicore CPU and lots of RAM. Just an example, see what happens on my PC when I browse a collection of RAW files in darkroom: lots of threads and CPU core being used: https://imgur.com/a/cSNac Currently I own an aging 4-core AMD so I'm thrilled about the new Ryzen CPUs, too. Unfortunately I have a Radeon HD 5870 which is not supported by the radeon driver xf86-video-ati 7.9.0 (ubuntu 17.04) $ darktable -d opencl [opencl_init] opencl related configuration options: [opencl_init] [opencl_init] opencl: 1 [opencl_init] opencl_library: '' [opencl_init] opencl_memory_requirement: 768 [opencl_init] opencl_memory_headroom: 300 [opencl_init] opencl_device_priority: '*/!0,*/*/*' [opencl_init] opencl_size_roundup: 16 [opencl_init] opencl_async_pixelpipe: 0 [opencl_init] opencl_synch_cache: 0 [opencl_init] opencl_number_event_handles: 25 [opencl_init] opencl_micro_nap: 1000 [opencl_init] opencl_use_pinned_memory: 0 [opencl_init] opencl_use_cpu_devices: 0 [opencl_init] opencl_avoid_atomics: 0 [opencl_init] opencl_enable_markesteijn: 1 [opencl_init] [opencl_init] could not find opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL' [opencl_init] could not find opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL.so' [opencl_init] found opencl runtime library 'libOpenCL.so.1' [opencl_init] opencl library 'libOpenCL.so.1' found on your system and loaded [opencl_init] could not get platforms: -1001 [opencl_init] FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE on this system. [opencl_init] initial status of opencl enabled flag is OFF. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
