[vfio-users] (good) working GPU for passthrough?

[Alex John]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:03:03PM +0100, Tobias Geiger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> after nearly 5 years of passing through my Radeon HD7800 - it feels old and
> slow when used with newer games and 1GB of RAM also doesn't feel right
> anymore...
>
> I tried a VEGA 64 - i was able to live with the ACS patch needed here (Z170
> Chipset... not needed with the old HD7800, but whatever...) - but i couldn't
> stand the reset/FLR/Bug which forces you at least to suspend/resume the host
> when you want to reboot only the guest...
>
> So my question is - AMD or NVIDIA, i dont care, cheap or superexpensive (ok,
> not the quadros) - what do you recommend these days for a hassle-free
> passthrough experienence (well at least mostly - acs patch needed would be
> ok, reset bug not so... it just makes it unhandy to use in day-to-day
> scenarios...)

Wouldn't needing the ACS patch depend on your mobo as opposed to your GPU?

fwiw I have had a flawless experience passing through a GTX1080 with multiple
dynamic rebinding events.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
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