Hi, > And I do not yet have understood how much influence has the amount of > memory... Someone knows or can provide some link?
In this case GPU performance difference is so big that the 1060 would be a much better investment than the 1050, even with 1GB less of memory. In the case of Darktable it's very unlikely that the lower memory will give you any trouble. I don't know of any description on how DT uses GPU memory, but this link (http://www.darktable.org/2012/03/darktable-and-memory/) will give you an idea of the general memory use. I'd guess DT won't use much more than 30Mpx*4*8bytes x 2=2GB of GPU memory to process a typical image. On the other hand, the speed difference will be noticeable, not much on real time edition (both are fast enough) but mainly in exporting. > Anyway, from here > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-27-Results > I see that that almost all the cpus are slower than any gpu... Having said that, it's true that any of the two will give you a big improvement over the CPU alone. I have a laptop with a 960M (there is roughly the same jump from it to the 1050Ti as from the 1050Ti to the 1060), and the difference with the i7-4720HQ CPU is massive (3-4 times faster export). In the end, you are the only one who knows your budget and how much you can stretch it. I'm of the opinion that 60€ divided by (at least) 5 years of use are perfectly justified, but I'm lucky enough that I can usually "spare" that kind of money. >> Is someone using already NVidia proprietary driver on debian testing? Is a >> problematic installation? Not on Debian, but on Ubuntu 17.04 it's a painless installation that's one PPA repository away. The only non-default thing that I had to do was to disable secure booting because the kernel module messes up with the kernel signature (the package installer tells you how to). >> And with the various 1050ti (zotac, msi, gigabyte, palit... ) is there a >> card better than the others regarding the use with Linux, debian and >> darktable...? At the core the chipset is the same, so driver-wise they should be identical. The difference should be more in the quality of the memory and in the thermal management. I once had a Zotac version, no complaints but it was 10 years ago. Best regards, Guillermo ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
