Hello, I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second gpu to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing nvidia gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is capable of hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look for? I am not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc. Please let me know. thanks, .
04.09.2015 21:34, Dot Yet ?????:> Hello, > > I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second gpu > to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing nvidia > gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is capable of > hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look for? I am > not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc. > > Please let me know.I have Intel HD4000 too and wanted something better but quiet and low-power for my thin mini-BTX motherboard. I've got passive cooled Nvidia GT 730 that draws power from PCI-E slot only, no additional power from motherboard. It works just fine with binary nvidia-driver with FreeBSD 10.2 Eugene Grosbein
On 04/09/15 16:34, Dot Yet wrote:> Hello, > > I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second gpu > to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing nvidia > gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is capable of > hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look for? I am > not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc. > > Please let me know.Yes a Nvidia GTX 750ti is supported by the closed source binary driver according to https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx (enter your data and you end up at https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us). A GTX 750ti is a bit overpowered for light desktop and media usage but based on a dated microarchitecture and lacks hardware support for the upcoming h.265 video codec. Nvidia drops support for old hardware in their driver from time to time and newer chips have a lower idle power consumption for a given peak performance so you might want to look for a GPU with a newer microarchitecture. The GTX950 would be a good fit but the nvidia driver port is not yet up to version 352.41 which adds support for the GTX950.