{"id":3378,"date":"2020-02-07T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2020-02-02T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T23:07:04","slug":"building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-graphics-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-graphics-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a personal computer &#8211; selecting a graphics card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Picking\na graphics card depends on what you are planning on doing with your\ncomputer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\nPlay\n\tgames\n\t<\/li><li>\nMine\n\tbitcoin\n\t<\/li><li>\nPlay\n\tsuper intensive fast pace games\n\t<\/li><li>\nSurf\n\tthe internet \n\t\n\t<\/li><li>\nWatching\n\tyoutube videos\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once\nyou have answered which one or more of these you will need a graphics\ncard most of the decision is done.  The next question is do you or\nyour games need cuda support.  Cuda is a parallel programming library\ndeveloped by Nvidia and runs exclusively on Nvidia.  Thus if you need\nCuda your decision of which GPU vendor has been decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\nup and coming alternative to Cuda is Vulkan.  Vulkan is a cross\nplatform computing API which is intended to replace OpenGL or\nDirect3D and also offers parallel processing.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nVulkan actually becomes more common it could allow more and higher\nquality games to be available on other operating systems than\nwindows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfinal piece or the decision is how much money can you afford.  Both\nNvidia and AMD do have graphic cards that cover the price spectrum. \nUsually this is selecting either a slightly older model or the latest\nand greatest GPU.  It is just a matter of getting the most GPU that\nyou can afford that fulfills what you need a computer for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking a graphics card depends on what you are planning on doing with your computer. Play games Mine bitcoin Play super intensive fast pace games Surf the internet Watching youtube videos Once you have answered which one or more of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/building-a-personal-computer-selecting-a-graphics-card\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}