> On the other hand, the speed difference will be noticeable, not much > on real time edition (both are fast enough) but mainly in exporting.
Real time edition is good for both the cards? And the difference with the cpu alone is very appreciable, true? Anyway, thank you for your explanation! BW 2017-09-03 16:50 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Rozas <[email protected]>: > 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 darktable-user+unsubscribe@ > lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
