[Nouveau] Nouveau support for GeForce GT 730 or GTX 750 Ti?

[Csányi Pál]

2016-01-03 19:32 GMT+01:00 Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu>:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Csányi Pál <csanyipal at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I want to use nouveau driver in the future too.
>>
>> So I'm in doubt in that that whether to buy
>> GeForce GT730

>> So, does nouveau support these cards?
>>
>> Should I choose GTX 750 Ti or GT 730 or neither of them?
>>
>> Is that true that GTX 750 Ti is Maxwell and may work with
>> xf86-video-nouveau v1.0.11, but the next v1.0.12 removed the GM10x
>> support?

>> So should I buy instead the GT 730 card?
>
> I would very much recommend a GT 730 over a GTX 750 Ti in terms of
> nouveau support, although they are not comparable in price or
> performance (GT 730 will be cheaper and slower). But on the bright
> side you should be able to reclock a GT 730, so perhaps with nouveau
> it really will be faster.

> Oh, one last thought, I know NVIDIA loves to rebrand marketing
> names... make sure you don't get a GT 730 that's really a Fermi -- if
> it says 48 or 96 cores, it's probably a Fermi. If it says 192 or 384
> cores then it will almost certainly be a Kepler (which is what you
> want).

I can't know without buying it whether is it Fermi or Kepler, right?
I get only these informations from that card:
VGA GIGABYTE NVIDIA GEFORCE GT730, GV-N730D5-2GI, 2GB DDR5,
902/5000MHz, HDMI, DVI-D, D-sub

Is this a Fermi or a Kepler card?

> For the best open-source support, I recommend sticking with an
> on-board Intel GPU, or if that's insufficient (esp recent stuff has
> been getting pretty speedy), getting something from AMD.

I don't have on-board Intel GPU on this motherboard.

So there is an AMD card too:
VGA ASUS AMD Radeon R7 240, R7240-2GD3-L, 2GB DDR3, 128bit,
730/1800MHz, HDMI, DVI-D, D-sub

What would be the best choice here:
GEFORCE GT 730
or
AMD Radeon R7 240 ?

-- 
Best, Pali