Poll: What GPU are you running?

[pat500000]

Nvidia releases 2 drivers for their GPUs. The Web Driver to drive the card in the Mac environment and the CUDA Driver for folks that utilize Cuda. The Web Drivers are specific for each OS point release. The Cuda Driver usually covers a couple of OSs. The latest CUDA Driver is 8.0.51 and is available here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-8.0.51-driver.html

And works with 10.11.x and 10.12.x

And no, the CUDA driver is not needed if you are not using anything that uses CUDA.

Lou

Thanks Lou.

 

[Flint Ironstag]

I had a flashed 7970 but it got so hot the room I'm in would start heating up whenever I even just watched youtube + did web dev. I switched to Gt120 + unflashed gtx980

man, isn't it nice to have PCIe slots, how you doing nMP owners !? :X

Would be doing fine if eGPU were live. Thanks for asking!

 

[kschendel]

So, your main criterion is that the card is supported by the worst Nvidia driver on the planet?

"Disable nouveau" is the first thing that I do with any Linux system running on hardware with an Nvidia GPU.

Perhaps that might be because you care about GPU performance. I don't, and I'd rather have an in-tree driver rather than endlessly screwing around with nvidia recompiles every time I want to change the kernel. (Which I do fairly regularly.) I've been down that road, before nouveau knew what to do with GT120 and the DisplayPort, and it was a massive PITA.

Actually, my main criterion is minimum noise.

 

[lowendlinux]

Perhaps that might be because you care about GPU performance. I don't, and I'd rather have an in-tree driver rather than endlessly screwing around with nvidia recompiles every time I want to change the kernel. (Which I do fairly regularly.) I've been down that road, before nouveau knew what to do with GT120 and the DisplayPort, and it was a massive PITA.

Actually, my main criterion is minimum noise.

You don't have to..

Nouveau isn't bad but it's not 2005

 

[ugru]

Flashed PC card - HD 7950 - no resistor mod