On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 6:43 PM Steve Kargl via Fortran <fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > All, > > The systems that I've used while hacking on gfortran > bugs and features are starting to show their age. I'm > in the early stage of put together the wishlist for > a budget friendly replacement. While I'll likely go > with a Ryzen7 cpu, NVME M2 drives, and as much memory > as I can afford, I'm looking for recommendations for > a budget friendly video/gpu card that will allow me to > take a deeper dive into openacc/openmp and offloading. > Anyone have a suggestion?
I am sofar doing "functional level" testing of offloading with a GTX 1650 which is I think the most affordable thing you can still get. Not sure how future proof this will be though with future support from NVIDIA (you still need CUDA for offloading). I have not yet had success with any consumer AMD graphics product, the gcn backend requires the radeon instinct compute cards. So I suppose any "cheap" nvidia will do, of course performance wise it will suck (esp. when doing FP64 - also watch out if they eventually disable that completely on some consumer card generations) Richard. > Note, I've mostly used FreeBSD over the last 25+ years. > I suspect that pursuing offloading may be easier with > a flavor linux. Any recommendation would also be > appreciated. > > -- > Steve
