Here is the relevant part of lshw for my dt machine:
H/W path Device Class Description
=================================================
system M51BC (SKU)
/0 bus M51BC
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor AMD FX(tm)-8300 Eight-Core Processor
/0/4/5 memory 384KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 8MiB L2 cache
/0/4/7 memory 8MiB L3 cache
/0/2e memory 32GiB System Memory
/0/2e/0 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333
MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/2e/1 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333
MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/2e/2 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333
MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/2e/3 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333
MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/100 bridge RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external
gfx0 port B)
/0/100/0.2 generic RD990 I/O Memory Management Unit
(IOMMU)
/0/100/2 bridge RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI
express gpp port B)
/0/100/2/0 display Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240 OEM]
(sorry for the line wrap). This box flies with OpenCL and is not too
noisy. The Oland models are a couple revs back from current AMD cards.
As for any problems with the drivers, I am using the fglrx-updates blob
from AMD on this Ubuntu 14.10 box with zero problems. However, you may
or may not be a happy person depending if you also use any program that
needs wine. Turns out that both AMD and the wine project shipped with
opencl as a dependency. As a result, if you try to install one with the
other already installed, you will be asked if you want to uninstall the
one installed first whether it be wine or the fglrx driver. This hits me
since I do a lot of astrophoto work using DeepSkyStacker which needs
wine. Fortunately, I have another box that I do my DSS stuff on so I
still get to use my main box with darktable using the fglrx-updates.
Apparently this clash has already been resolved but the fixed versions
haven't percolated downward yet.
I am in the early stages of getting to know it but so far dt v1.6.0 is a
fantastic piece of software.
Jack
On 2014-12-12 10:33 AM, Andre Bischof wrote:
> I found this benchmark site too, so I guess I will just use the overall
> comparison:
> http://compubench.com/result.jsp
> and look up which cards are available fanless and pick the fastest - as
> long as it is affordable to me.
>
> Do you know if the AMD cards are troubleless under ubuntu 14 regarding
> drivers? I wouldn't like to have to deal with module-assistent again ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Andre
>
> Am 12.12.2014 um 19:01 schrieb Michael Below:
>>
>> I think that comparison is not really fair J…
>>
>> But yes, the R9 290 will be faster than the GTX 750Ti. And louder.
>>
>> I was thinking of the AMD R7 260X, which seems to have a similar price
>> as the GTX 750 Ti, and it’s faster in OpenCL, but it also needs more
>> power = more heat = more noise.
>>
>> http://compubench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=compu20&D1=NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+750+Ti&os1=OS+X&api1=cl&D2=AMD+Radeon+R7+260X&cols=2
>>
>> While the AMD R7 250 is available as a fanless card, but It’s slower:
>>
>> http://compubench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=compu20&D1=NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+750+Ti&os1=OS+X&api1=cl&D2=AMD+Radeon+R7+250&cols=2
>>
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