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Hello Freesurfer Developers,

the old Linux-Computer Freesurfer was running on broke down and now we need to buy a new one.
The recommondations in the systems requirements were very helpful, but they seem a bit outdated.
For Graphics Card it says:

• ATI (AMD) vs nVidia: We still spec nVidia because we don't have problems with its OpenGL-X driver under linux. Perhaps ATI has finally supplied one that works, but this hasn't been attempted in a couple years. ATI cards on the Mac work fine with freesurfer though.
• GPU: We no longer support [further] CUDA or GPU development because of lack of resources and difficulty, in preference to using OpenMP, which uses CPU cores. We will continue to support the existing GPU CUDA code that runs on recon-all with the -use-gpu switch. By support, keeping it running with each new nvidia cuda driver release as best as we can.

Is this still accurate? The Tech support at my university would order an AMD graphics card, since the issue with the drivers for Linux seems to be fixed. Does anyone has any current experiences with AMD vs. nVidia graphics cards?

Thanks in advance and best wishes,
Falko