On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:08:47 +0000 [email protected] dijo: >Neither the 340 nor the 304 driver work on CentOS 7. Instead, I am >ordering two Radeon HD 5450 1 gig PCIe x16 silent cards. That's what >my Linux system has one of and I'll replace the NVIDIA card. I have a >Quadro, but my power supply lacks the special 2x3 power plug for it... > >The advantage of the Radeon HD 5450 is that no proprietary driver is >needed to use it in Linux. It probably isn't all that performant, but >I'm merely needing another screen or two so I can do the BOUML >tutorial and move on to firmware programming.
Another advantage of Radeon cards is that most of them have FreeSync which, if you have a FreeSync-enabled monitor, eliminates screen tearing and associated woes with high speed videos. This is not only good for gaming, but also for playing high action / high resolution movies. And this is not a function of the driver or operating system; the Radeon card communicates directly with the monitor so it knows that it can use FreeSync. Nvidia offers a similar feature (GSync), but monitor manufacturers have to pay Nvidia if they want to include it in a monitor (~ $100); whereas FreeSync is free. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
