- 1536 CUDA Cores
- 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5
- PCI Express 3.0
Works for Blender on Linux
07/19/2014
This review is from: ZOTAC ZT-70304-10P G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Pros:
Runs CUDA like a dream. Cycles on Blender flies with this thing on Linux. Runs dual monitors just fine.
I haven't tested it much on Windows. It came with Watch Dogs, which is supposed to be a pretty good game.
Cons:
NVidia only supports OpenCL 1.1 as of version 340 of their drivers (at least on Linux), so anything requring OpenCL 1.2 (like FFMpeg, for instance) isn't going to work with it (or any NVidia card, as far as I can tell).
It's large (full length, two slots wide), so look at your motherboard layout and determine where your 3.0 x16 ports are and make sure it's not going to interfere with anything. Nothing like buying a card and finding out it blocks half your SATA ports or hits the chipset heat sink. Also be sure that your case has some clearance between the drive bays and where the card is going to go - hard drives usually stick out a bit from the drive bay.
Overall Review:
Getting CUDA 6 and version 340 of the driver on Linux Mint was a pain. If you're having issues getting all the proper packages together for this, add the xorg edgers repository to your sources.list (assuming you're using a Debian-derived distro). I still had to install CUDA using NVidia's binary installer, but it's self-contained.
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- Jeff S.
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