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Re: Suggestions AMD or NVidia



On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:33:42PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> Hello,
> usually I do not really care about graphic power, however I am planning to
> build a new machine for Monte Carlo simulations. And part of the
> calculations would be perfect for offloading to a GPU.
> 
> So anyone have any suggestions for graphic cards (which preferably 
> are supported by debian). I know that currently AMD are hard to get because
> of all the ethereum mining. 
> 
> Which of the current cards are well supported under debian?
> Or might give me some troubles?

Follow up on my own question:
It seems that in strtech there are no longer AMD vendor icd s available.
There are still nvidia-libopencl1 (non-free) drivers available.
So it looks like the current stable is a no go for AMD if you rely on
debian packages.


-H

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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com


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