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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Gosh - I remember using some app for AmigaOS c. 1991 (Amiga 1000, 2.5MiB 
RAM) - some shiny interlocked chain links with a sunset background. I 
remember very carefully taking a color print film shot of the monitor 
with a 105mm macro lens along with a shot of the monitor showing a 
neutral gray for white-balance purposes. The result looked great.

On 6/8/15 9:25 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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