Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2016, 09:21:12 CET schrieb Rob Z. Smith: > Just to offer a contrary view, dt runs fine on much less powerful cards than > these. What I would say though is to make sure that whatever AMD card you > choose is supported by the AMD GPUpro drivers. My old hd6770 card was >

RE: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

2016 23:15 To: Dan McDaniel Cc: darktable-user@lists.darktable.org Subject: Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable On sabato 3 dicembre 2016 23:59:14 CET, Dan McDaniel wrote: > I've been following this thread and it has prompted me to think about > upgrading from my current

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On sabato 3 dicembre 2016 23:59:14 CET, Dan McDaniel wrote: I've been following this thread and it has prompted me to think about upgrading from my current Intel chipset video. I'm trying to decide among the AMD 460/470/480 cards. How much difference can I expect between a 460 and the more

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 17:59:14 -0500 Dan McDaniel wrote: >I've been following this thread and it has prompted me to think about >upgrading from my current Intel chipset video. I'm trying to decide >among the AMD 460/470/480 cards. Personally, if funds are 'not so good', I would go the

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On Sat 26.Nov.16 18:11, Niccolò Belli wrote: On sabato 26 novembre 2016 17:30:59 CET, Rico Heil wrote: Does anybody know, how much of a difference (if any) I should experience between those two processors while using darktable? You will probably get better performance saving some bucks on the

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

If someone is interested I asked Michael to make a PTS profile for darktable and do some benchmarks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=darktable-opencl-gpu=1 I asked him to use 2.2~rc1 because usually PTS profiles tend to stay untouched for quite some time, so better to have latest

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 16:25:59 CET schrieb Rico Heil: > Am 27.11.2016 um 16:17 schrieb Ulrich Pegelow: > > Am 27.11.2016 um 16:04 schrieb Rico Heil: > >> Actually, I can't disable it. > >> Seems like a cosmetical bug to me: The checkmark should not be set > > > > True, that's a minor UI

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

- Original Message - > Am 26.11.2016 um 18:11 schrieb Niccolò Belli: > > You will probably get better performance saving some bucks on the CPU > > and buying a very fast GPU for OpenCL acceleration. Something like the > > RADEON RX 480 would be an optimal solution because of FOSS drivers,

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On domenica 27 novembre 2016 16:24:19 CET, Patrick Rudin wrote: My old Phenom II 840 needs 68 seconds, a new and expensive i7 6700k still 36 seconds. The i7 with activated GTX1060 needs only 5 seconds. What? Are we talking about the same bench.SRW.xmp? It takes less than a second with my

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

GPU: [dev_process_export] pixel pipeline processing took 1,253 secs (0,240 CPU) CPU: [dev_process_export] pixel pipeline processing took 0,875 secs (3,210 CPU) model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz model name

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 27.11.2016 um 16:25 schrieb Rico Heil: It should be grayed out already. It's not on my machine: At least I am not able to see any difference. Actually not really visible. See the attached file how it looks here. The difference is not very big, though. That's a style issue. Not even

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

2016-11-27 16:24 GMT+01:00 Patrick Rudin : > I would be interested in the numbers of a RX460/70/80 with working > openCL... In ~10 days I should install the RX480 that I have bought some days ago. I will let you know about benchmarks

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 27.11.2016 um 16:17 schrieb Ulrich Pegelow: > Am 27.11.2016 um 16:04 schrieb Rico Heil: >> Actually, I can't disable it. >> Seems like a cosmetical bug to me: The checkmark should not be set > > True, that's a minor UI issue. Fixing it requires a bit of thought... ... and I bet there are many

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Rico Heil worte: > If yes: how much performance improvement would be expected if I add an > additional graphics board? Very much. I did run a test yesterday in the german newsgroup dcoulh [1] with a simple testcase (including denoise and equalizer for heavy GPU-use) and the difference was huge:

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 27.11.2016 um 16:04 schrieb Rico Heil: Am 27.11.2016 um 15:38 schrieb Christian Kanzian: Am Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 15:32:24 schrieb Rico Heil: This discussion made me check the OpenCL paramters in my current darktable installation. "activate opencl support" is checked and I cannot

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am So 27 Nov 2016 15:32:24 CET schrieb Rico Heil : > This discussion made me check the OpenCL paramters in my current > darktable installation. > "activate opencl support" is checked and I cannot uncheck it. > Does this mean I am forced to use OpenCL or does it mean my GPU does

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 27.11.2016 um 15:38 schrieb Christian Kanzian: > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 15:32:24 schrieb Rico Heil: >> This discussion made me check the OpenCL paramters in my current >> darktable installation. >> "activate opencl support" is checked and I cannot uncheck it. >> Does this mean I am

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Hi Am Sonntag, 27. November 2016, 15:32:24 schrieb Rico Heil: > This discussion made me check the OpenCL paramters in my current > darktable installation. > "activate opencl support" is checked and I cannot uncheck it. > Does this mean I am forced to use OpenCL or does it mean my GPU does not >

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On domenica 27 novembre 2016 11:20:59 CET, Ulrich Pegelow wrote: Intel graphics does not have a working OpenCL implementation for Linux systems. There is the free beignet driver around since quite some time but that is still buggy and so far nobody has been able to get it working with

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 27.11.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Rico Heil: Am 26.11.2016 um 18:11 schrieb Niccolò Belli: You will probably get better performance saving some bucks on the CPU and buying a very fast GPU for OpenCL acceleration. Something like the RADEON RX 480 would be an optimal solution because of FOSS

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

Am 26.11.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Robert Krawitz: > The PassMark (http://www.cpubenchmark.net) number for the i7-6700K is > 11,044; for the i5-6500, it's 7072. My experience has been that this > provides a pretty good measure for heavily multi-threaded > CPU-intensive workloads, which darktable is

Re: [darktable-user] Chosing the optimal CPU for darktable

On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:30:59 +0100, Rico Heil wrote: > I am currently in the process of selecting the components for my new PC. > > The only really "CPU-consuming" task for this computer will be > developing my RAW photos using darktable. > > I am unsure if I should buy an Intel Core i5-6500 or if