[ale] Blender and GPU.... What to buy?

[Boris Borisov]

Wow this thread brings back memories. 3DStudio 3.0 for DOS / Pentium 100
Mhz / 32 MB RAM . Scene with glass windows ... Just forget the machine for
a week :)

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of the Tesla cards are well usable as long as you load the nvidia
> binary drivers.
>
> You can get cuda cores from non-tesla cards as well. Several of the gamer
> class cards have many such cores with a decent amount of GRAM.
>
> You can have multiple graphics cards. The trick is to customize xorg.conf
> to only use the non nvidia.
>
> Rpmfusion is the repo for nvidia drivers for fedora.
> On Jun 8, 2015 8:43 PM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> For my current work (videos less than a couple of minutes long with low
>> complexity in NTSC resolution) my CPU does just fine. However, I would like
>> to speed up rendering for scenes to be somewhat faster.
>>
>> It seems that Blender supports "CUDA GPU devices with compute ability >
>> 2.0", which the tesla line all does.
>>
>> However I currently have ATI video output that works well, and I'd like
>> to retain that if at all possible. So, a few questions that I hope someone
>> has the answer to, in the hopes of saving some money in research...
>>
>> 1. Can I have both ATI and NVIDIA hardware in the same system, using ATI
>> for display and NVIDIA just for processing? I like having a well working
>> KMS setup which supports both X11 and Weston/Wayland.
>>
>> 2. Does anyone know what would be the most painless in terms of
>> well-supported devices on Fedora 21 or Fedora 22 workstation? Ideally I
>> just want to plug it in and be able to tell blender to use it.
>>
>> 3. The K80 seems to be the best bet. Can anyone confirm this?
>>
>> 4. Lastly, has the state of NVIDIA binary drivers in general improved?
>> I've been out of the NVIDIA world since probably 2010 or so. At least then,
>> it was a royal PITA to make work (right), but it was okay after that as
>> long as nothing changed.
>>
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