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Questions tagged [graphics-cards]

For questions about standalone video- and graphics-processing PCIe cards. Do not use this tag for on-board CPU or motherboard graphics questions.

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GPU for deep learning

I have a budget of ~10 kUSD to buy GPUs for neural network applications, mostly using Theano, Torch, TensorFlow and Caffe. Most programs I plan to run are for natural language processing. Computations are in float 32 and in CUDA. I live in the USA,…
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Equivalent graphics card

At the moment I am using this computer: Motherboard Name: Asus P8P67 (3xPCI, 2xPCI-E x1, 2xPCI-E x16, 4xDDR3 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) Motherboard Chipset: Intel Cougar Point P67, Intel Sandy Bridge CPU: Quad-core Intel Core i7-2600K,…
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Low-power-draw HD resolution video card

I recently needed to start using a third screen on my desktop, and the built-in Intel video will only handle two. For that purpose, I pulled an old ATI 4350 out of the closet. I barely ever used this card because it was very noisy, so I took the fan…
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External GPU card for iMac

I have an iMac 27 (core i5, 8gb ram, AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2gb) and this is not enough for some new games. So are there external graphics card box, which capable of operate on the internal monitor iMac with windows OS? I know about Sonnet, Akitio and…
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Is the ASUS Radeon R9 390 STRIX 8Gb a product that would be advisable to buy?

I currently have a MSI R9 380 GAMING 4Gb card, and was wondering how it would compare to my current card? (E.G. performance to dollar wise) And if not what would be a viable alternative for around 300 dollars? Current PC: - GIGABYTE LGA 1150 INTEL…
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Upgrading from a nVidia 650 TI to something more beefy

I bought Assassin's Creed: Syndicate last night and found that my graphics card was really struggling with it. The card itself is at least 2 years old (I bought it with my first paycheck in 2013) and was second hand/refurbished even then. It's had a…
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New Second Graphics Card

I have a Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti - I did have two but one expired. looking for a similar replacement to run a single TV through HDMI, the current card runs two monitors. Do I need to be looking at the same brand or spec? Or will it work with…
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How to find Nvidia GPU for CUDA computation with wide support?

I bought GTX 960 GPUs but noticed that the are not supported by all my PCs, most notably business PCs. I would like to find some well supported GPUs because I am only interested in computation by GPU, not gaming. However, I am not sure if I lose…
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a good ethereum mining GPU

I'm looking for a good ethereum mining GPU. I heard it's mostly memory bandwidth intensive, so I rounded up the specs of the latest cards from Wikipedia and came up this (prices are in CAD.): card price watts GB/s …
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Picking the right future proof graphics card

I have been researching on entry-level graphics cards for about a month and I have come down to four options, which I'm not sure how to finalize. The following are the cards. Sapphire Nitro Radeon Rx 460 4GB OC [ $199 ] Gigabyte Radeon Rx 460…
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Replacement for old Radeon HD 4870 1-Gb 256 bit GDDR5

I'm looking for a similar AMD cheap modern replacement of this card (Radeon HD 4870 1-Gb 256 bit GDDR5) for my old computer but i'm not very sure about the way to go. Price between (50$-100$) What modern AMD card would have a similar or better…
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External GPU with Mac OSX?

I'm looking for an external GPU to use with a Macbook Pro, with Thunderbolt 2 and running OSX. Most of the examples I've found online are of people using an eGPU for gaming, dual-booting on Windows 10, on Mac hardware. That's not my goal. Products…
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Deep Learning workstation advice

I am using Keras with Theano backend. Until now I have used AWS EC2 GPU instances for train my keras network. As my experiments become larger, my network trains became longer and my bills became bigger. I calculated that good workstation would be a…
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big brand PCI graphics card win 10 compatible?

Do you know of any big brand graphics card that is PCI and win 10 compatible, so with DirectX 9 or later and WDDM 1.0 driver? It's for an old computer with an AGP 3.3v slot, and a PCI slot. I'm looking for a PCI card rather than an AGP 3.3v one, as…
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Upgrading from EVGA GTX 660 to EVGA GTX 950 - worth it?

I currently have an EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked card, but just noticed the fancy offer to buy a GTX 950 and receive £70 in-game 'value'. My 660 can run most of the games I throw at it at highest settings (i.e. 1920x1080 and setting everything else to…
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