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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/3/24 12:48, Stephen Partington via
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          style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Take a
          look at the 5500xt. Its in the same price category, but newer
          and should be supported for quite some time. also should have
          better feature support.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM
          Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a
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            <p>The website I checked out to compare the cards showed the
              age of the cards.  The  710 was first sold in 2015 and
              2017 for the 580.  I can't see myself spending several
              hundred for the latest and greatest.<br>
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            <div>On 4/2/24 09:53, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
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style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">the 710 is
                  almost a decade old even though it is being sold. the
                  580 is still several core architectures behind.</div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at
                  8:23 AM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a
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                    <p>I looked up the two cards you mentioned and they
                      perform pretty much the same, but they appear to
                      blow the GT710 out of the water if this is to be
                      believed. I think I'll give up on getting nvenc to
                      work on the gt 710.  I imagine the rx580 will do
                      much better.<br>
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                    <p><a
href="https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-GT-710-vs-AMD-RX-580/m77649vs3923"
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                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-GT-710-vs-AMD-RX-580/m77649vs3923</a><br>
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                    <div>On 3/28/24 14:05, Stephen Partington via
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                      <div dir="auto">The closest modern card are going
                        to be the RX 580's or 5500xt
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                        <div dir="auto">Thise are in the 50-100 price
                          range that the 710 is. </div>
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                        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar
                          28, 2024, 4:58 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a
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                            <p>The card I have now is a GeForce GT 710. 
                              What Radeon card  would be equivalent to
                              that?  I don't want to buy something that
                              turns out to be slower.<br>
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                            <div>On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington
                              via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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                              <div dir="auto">Also amd flagship cards
                                are getting tremendous performance gains
                                under vulkan. </div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                  Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM Steve Litt
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                                  via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar
                                  2024 12:58:34 -0700<br>
                                  <br>
                                  >I have an Nvidia card. The
                                  computer has an Intel gpu.  I would
                                  think <br>
                                  >that Nvidia support should come
                                  along sooner or later. <br>
                                  <br>
                                  I doubt it. They won't reveal the
                                  interface without an NDA that Free<br>
                                  Software developers can't sign.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  >There are a lot <br>
                                  >of Nvidia users out there. <br>
                                  <br>
                                  Nvidia doesn't care. They're in the
                                  top 6 worldwide richest<br>
                                  corporations because of their
                                  leadership in AI chips, so they don't<br>
                                  care about a few Linux people stuck
                                  with Nvidia hardware.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  If you can, I'd advise you to do what
                                  I did and switch from Nvidia to<br>
                                  Radeon the minute your machine
                                  exhibits the slightest flakiness or<br>
                                  video artifacts.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  SteveT<br>
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                                  Steve Litt <br>
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