On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 1:40 AM Richard Biener via Fortran <fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 6:43 PM Steve Kargl via Fortran > <fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > All, > > > > The systems that I've used while hacking on gfortran > > bugs and features are starting to show their age. I'm > > in the early stage of put together the wishlist for > > a budget friendly replacement. While I'll likely go > > with a Ryzen7 cpu, NVME M2 drives, and as much memory > > as I can afford, I'm looking for recommendations for > > a budget friendly video/gpu card that will allow me to > > take a deeper dive into openacc/openmp and offloading. > > Anyone have a suggestion? > > I am sofar doing "functional level" testing of offloading with > a GTX 1650 which is I think the most affordable thing you > can still get. Not sure how future proof this will be though > with future support from NVIDIA (you still need CUDA for > offloading). I have not yet had success with any consumer > AMD graphics product, the gcn backend requires > the radeon instinct compute cards. > > So I suppose any "cheap" nvidia will do, of course > performance wise it will suck (esp. when doing FP64 - also > watch out if they eventually disable that completely on > some consumer card generations) > > That's problematic as Nvidia's support for open source is at best spotty and if you're doing something a tiny bit out of 'usual' - - - - terrible.
My previous system I started using 3 - 570 nvidia gpus and when 2 failed some 8 years i I replaced them using only 1 - 1650 Ti. My issue was that I wanted to using a HDMI monitor as part of my group - - - - - the results were a system that would need a restart every 2 weeks and it was a royal PITA with the nuisance. My present system is quite more reliable but today's browsers are now also increasing the issues - - - - argh!!!!! HTH
