[mythtv-users] Is it worth upgrading from an nVidia GT520?

Sun Jan 12 21:50:16 UTC 2020

I've just replaced a GT520 with a GT1030 in my frontend. This is mainly
used to watch Eurosport, format1080i50, as available on my local cable. I
use VDPAU for everything and I cannot see a difference in quality on my TV.
As long there is a driver for your card then I see no need to replace it.
The GT520 is supported by Nvidia driver version 340.107 and that driver is
available on Ubuntu 18.04. MythTV V31 requires Qt 5.7 or higher and that
means for Ubuntu that you need at least version 18.04. For completeness,
the GT1030 uses Nvidia driver 440.44.
For Fedora you can install the 340 driver even in Fedora 31 according to
RPMFusion https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA but I have not tried that
myself.
So the bottom line is that for MythTV your Linux should be recent enough to
have Qt5.7 and old enough for the Nvidia 340 driver.

Klaas.

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 21:14, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

> [29.1 on Fedora 26 for now]
>
> Up until my MythTv FE/BE died I had been running an nVidia GT 520 video
> card
> using the akmod drivers and VDPAU. It's worked fine as far as I can tell.
> But
> I see support is Legacy now so I've wondered if I might benefit from a
> newer
> card.
>
> But there are lots of cards in https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
> legacy-gpu/ <https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/> that
> my local shop still offers for sale, toward the cheaper end
> of cards. It looks like GT-8xxx and below are all Legacy.
>
> My local shop seems to have the GT1030-2G-CSM as its cheapest non-Legacy
> fanless card, which, coincidentally looks just like the GT520 I have (and
> the
> GS8400 I mistakenly put in when I rebuilt the box in a rush after it died).
>
> Meanwhile, a GT710 card is half the price but still Legacy.
>
> The 8400 is definitely not as good as the 520, but I'm wondering, since I
> have
> to put the 520 back in anyway, if there's a reason to upgrade to a newer
> card.
>
> All I do is feed a 23" monitor from DVI and a 22" monitor from HDMI for
> watching TV. I watch a lot of sports, so VDPAU is important.
>
> Other than "newer", would I benefit from a newer card?
>
> --
> A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca
>
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