What distro is most compatible with various gfx cards
Hello all. I was fascinated to be introduced to the utility of graphics cards GPUs as number crunchers instead of CPUs. For example, an article there describes how an ATI X800 XT has 63 GFLOPS, while a Pentium 4 3.7 GHz CPU only has 14.8 GFLOPS.
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Although I am not familiar with writing hardware drivers, I foresee the "poor man's" equivalent of dual core CPUs: a CPU + GPU combo...if it is not already done. In essence, the PC games industry have been doing this for ages.
When would you expect a relatively "transparent" subroutine-module-etc. that would allow parallel processing between the GPU + CPU with minimal user fuss?
What Linux distro would offer the greatest compatibility with various graphics cards? Believe it or not, I still haven't gotten my Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB graphics card to work on SuSE 9.2
Even after installing the drivers, it artifacts terribly at stock speeds. I've tried overclocking it in Windows, and if I go only a few MHz higher than what it is specced, it starts artifacting. Could there be any relationship to how I seem to be "unlucky" with my card? I've never overclocked my card since that trial in Windows.
Perhaps my card's quality is slightly substandard and its defects are more apparent in SuSE?
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