[vtkusers] Does having a graphics card help?

[Robert Belleman]

It may be good to know that an important difference
between Quadro and GeForce on Linux is that only
Quadros support stereo visuals (in particular frame-
sequential stereo mode as used with active shutter
glasses).

-- Rob


fred wrote:

>Michael Rice a écrit :
>
>>Agreed.
>>
>>Beware of ATI cards if you're running Linux. We've seen some ATI  cards
>>that cause VTK apps to crash when using the ATI graphics  driver. We
>>have not had any problems with nVidia.
>>
>I confirm too.
>
>By the past, I had have 2 ATI (old, yes ;-) GPU, 9250 & 9800 Pro ; they
>had problem
>rendering some surfaces with OpenGl.
>
>For nvidia, you have 2 kinds of GPU : for professionnal & OpenGl (Quadro
>Fx) and... for gamers
>(GeForce  6xx & 7xx) & DirectX.  GeForce are cheaper than Quadro Fx, of
>course.
>
>But the GeForce GPU work very fine with OpenGl under Linux too.
>
>ATI & nvidia GPU can work with 2 cards on your mobo (CrossFire for ATI
>and SLI for nvidia).
>(I have not yet benched my SLI GPU with VTK).
>
>HTH.
>
>