I have a linux box recently made from parts, from Newegg.com
AMD 2700 cpu (I think…it’s been six months or so since I built it)
32gig ram
ssd drive for / linux
/home mounted on a separate disk, so I can change distributions a lot.
Mint linux tessa right now but that changes frequently
cheap graphics card I need to upgrade
I generically know I should buy a graphics card with at least 8gig onboard memory.
PUNCHLINE:
I want to do what ever I need to get OpenCl up and running for Darktable.
I know I might need to download some drivers and fight through DIY tutorials on youtube.
But what about particular hardware? Are there any better suited for OpenCL/Darktable–on Linux–than others? Any graphics cards to avoid?
My price range is $600. Or thereabouts.
Interesting. I don’t mind the proprietary driver. I have thousands of dollars invested in hardware, including cameras and lenses. I love FOSS (heavenly father thank you vi, Apache, Python and Darktable) but I also love ZereneStacker, and my VueScan scanner software (xsane runs my scanner in flatbed mode but not as a slide scanner). I’m easy. I like to have what I want.
depending on where you live and what $ you mean i think 600 puts you right in the middle of RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super… both will make darktable run CPU bound for a long time.
$300 buys you a 8GB AMD Radeon card which works just fine. Installing the driver is just adding a repository to your package manager and install the opencl package.
Also for us developers it is easy to open a bug report on github for AMD and they will fix it.
