Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

[Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Each monitor will only use the GPU that it is connected to.
>
> FWIW, I find the terminology used in the graphics card PC industry very
> confusing.  In my view, there are 4 different kinds of components to
> a graphic system:
>
> ...
>
> Most PC's "discrete" graphics cards include all 4 components and they
> typically can't use the system's normal DRAM in the same way they use
> their own video RAM.  This means that you often can't use your discrete
> GPU to render a 3D scene into the frame buffer used by the DE of your
> integrated graphics card.
>

Thanks for detailed explanation, Stefan. Your advice will definitely
save my money. As I have not yet purchased a motherboard, but I have a
couple of GPUs lying around unused. I am building a new workstation,
taking clues from this list.

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Regards,
Pankaj Jangid