Hi, Thanks for all your help, just starting upgrading to Debian 11. Reasons for going with nvidia was it was the cheapest thing I could find, passively cooled, and I do a bit of stuff with Cuda so nvidia is the only game in town. I am using nouveau at the moment, thank god, I'd hate to do this with nvidia kernel drivers!
Thanks James On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 09:27, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > piorunz <pior...@gmx.com> writes: > > > Free drivers are terrible to use if user wants hardware acceleration. > > Clocks are not ramped up, because nouveau does not support re-clocking. > > That means horrible performance, or crashes. I don't ever recommend, or > > sometimes even mention, nouveau. > > Hear, hear. I was actually surprised recently when my "new" laptop > actually produced video with nouveau but after some glitches I just > installed the proprietary nvidia-driver. This "new" laptop is 2016 > vintage with Quadro M2000 video, roughly equivalent to a GTX950 and > hence Maxwell-based. Even for it especially the power management and > video decode/encode acceleration support look pretty sad on the Nouveau > feature matrix (https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html). > > Not to mention the RTX3070Ti in my desktop. > > Still, impressive effort from the Nouveau project considering how many > chips Nvidia has pushed out over the years. > >
