gpu Output graphic cards

[anilsholodream]

Guys which of these cards will be a good choice for my new servers - AMD 7990 or NVIDIA GTX TITAN or FIREPRO W9000 / 7000???

[NNinja]

I think it depends on the number of outputs you want. I have several 7990 and I'm quite happy with them

[limeworks]

I also have two HD 7990s and they work exceptionally well - and have run 6 full HD streams from them without issue (sometimes some read delay from the HDD - easily fixed with RAID)..

 

Firepro would be better if you need  Genlock capability though.

I do notice some free-running videos get out of sync with each other when running for extended periods of time. 

I think Genlock will fix that since the display card listens to a master clock.

 

Rob

[Jonas Dannert]

I also have two HD 7990s and they work exceptionally well - and have run 6 full HD streams from them without issue (sometimes some read delay from the HDD - easily fixed with RAID)..

 

Or SSD:s, as highly recommended in all our setup guidelines for multioutput DisplayPC:s.

 

 

Firepro would be better if you need  Genlock capability though.

I do notice some free-running videos get out of sync with each other when running for extended periods of time. 

I think Genlock will fix that since the display card listens to a master clock.

 

We are not talking genlock here, but graphics card frame-lock.

Both AMD FirePro (W7/8/9xxx-series+S400) and NVidia Quadro (K5/6xxx-series+Quadro Sync) can give you this capability.

The hardware portion has to be set up before enabling this in WATCHOUT.

 

Please look into this thread here for more info:

http://forum.dataton.com/topic/1112-watchout-55-how-to-set-up-frame-lock/

 

http://forum.dataton.com/topic/1112-watchout-55-how-to-set-up-frame-lock/?do=findComment&comment=4340

http://forum.dataton.com/topic/1112-watchout-55-how-to-set-up-frame-lock/?do=findComment&comment=4382

 

/jonas

[limeworks]

Or SSD:s, as highly recommended in all our setup guidelines for multioutput DisplayPC:s.

 

 

 

We are not talking genlock here, but graphics card frame-lock.

 

Sorry i should clarify, we are using SSD - even SATAIII - we would get jumping on 6 x HD outputs and traced it back to read of the SSD apparently maxing out. We're yet to test with RAID0 but have plans to try 2 x 128GB SSD in place of the 256GB SSD currently in the display machine we're referencing.

 

We are probably pushing limits of throughput so we might find it's some other slow-point (but running performance statistics points to this). We're not near the theoretical limits, so who knows until we test it.

 

And yes - my error regarding Frame-Lock, sorry for the mistake.

 

Thanks,

Rob

[Jonas Dannert]

Just wanted to clarify a bit.

 

/jonas

[TomT]

I have several 7990

Watchout supports dual-GPU ?

[Jonas Dannert]

No, WATCHOUT 5.x.x does not support multi-GPU.

 

http://forum.dataton.com/topic/93-wo5-multi-output/

 

/jonas

[NNinja]

By saying Watchout 5.xxx doesn't support it - do we get a clue that maybe Watchout 6.xxx will do ?

[Jonas Dannert]

No, we are not saying that.

 

/jonas

[limeworks]

Watchout supports dual-GPU ?

 

Probably worth noting that 7990 is dual-GPU on the one card - which IS fully supported. 

 

But unfortunately dual cards not supported

[dabbz]

Does the RTX A4000 have a compatibility issue with watchout 6.7?

[Ali Serdar Gulseren]

On 1/10/2024 at 11:49 AM, dabbz said:

Does the RTX A4000 have a compatibility issue with watchout 6.7?

No compatibility issues