AMD and its opensource & closedsource in parallel driver development model is a complete scam and utter crap. Its a lie and some in the linux community still refuse to understand this. A professional needs good driver support. Drivers are not your instant messaging app that you can easily change with something else. Good driver support is as essential as good hardware. People that still support AMD on their false and half-assed driver support model are a bunch of zealots that don't use computers to make a living or for entertainment but for their zealotism.
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostUnfortunately AMD has no modern (28 nm, GCN) dGPU with less than 25 Watt.
NVIDIA has the GT 720 and GT 730.
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Originally posted by glxextxexlg View PostAMD and its opensource & closedsource in parallel driver development model is a complete scam and utter crap. Its a lie and some in the linux community still refuse to understand this. A professional needs good driver support. Drivers are not your instant messaging app that you can easily change with something else. Good driver support is as essential as good hardware. People that still support AMD on their false and half-assed driver support model are a bunch of zealots that don't use computers to make a living or for entertainment but for their zealotism.
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Originally posted by vsteel View PostI am not really sure other than Ubuntu says there isn't a point in it. Seems like it would be harder to split it out than just put the entire Nvidia driver in the PPA's.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTczMzE
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Originally posted by tuke81 View PostAfaik there are openCl libs on the ppa driver, might be some problem with symbolic linking. Files are located /usr/lib/nvidia-346 and /usr/lib32/nvidia-346 folders and I think you might need to install corresponding nvidia-libopencl1-346 package from ppa to get symbolic linking right.
/shrug
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Originally posted by Ansla View PostThat is quite understandable. Any CPU this days has a built in GPU and the above cards would be a regression compared to an AMD A10 APU and only a minor improvement over the Intel GPUs and other APUs.
NVIDIA seems to be quite happy with their GEFORCE GT 720 and GT 730. Both are available also as GDDR5 versions. I don't think an AMD A10 APU is competitive with a GDDR5 GT 730.
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostWhat about the AMD socket AM3+ CPUs?
Originally posted by drSeehas View PostNVIDIA seems to be quite happy with their GEFORCE GT 720 and GT 730. Both are available also as GDDR5 versions. I don't think an AMD A10 APU is competitive with a GDDR5 GT 730.
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Originally posted by Ansla View PostThose are all 95W+, ...
There are 8-core Opterons (OS3365OLW8KHK and OS3380OLW8KHK) which have a TDP of 65 W.
There is even the 3320 EE with 25 W TDP.
I don't think a TDP of 30W for the R7 240 compared to the 19W of GT 720 will make much of a difference. BTW, the GT 730 is 38W.
And the 30 W R7 240 comes with GDDR5? I doubt it.
The 25 W limit comes from the PCI Express specification. Some Mainboards can't provide more.
The GDDR5 variant, uses a 64bit bus and 5000MHz frequency. That should make its bandwidth slightly more than that of a dual channel (128bit) 2400MHz DDR3 setup. ...
128 bit DDR3 @ 2133 MHz (2400 is OC) are roughly 34 GB/s shared with the CPU.
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostThe 25 W limit comes from the PCI Express specification. Some Mainboards can't provide more.
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