Comment on What should I replace the GTX 1080s in my server with?
Lurker1347@fedinsfw.app 3 hours ago
I’m not sure about AMD but for Nvidia it can matter which generation of NVENC and NVDEC chips you have, as well as the number of them. Myself, I use the P400 which is pretty much a 1050.
If you don’t need to update the drivers per se for it to work I would suggest freezing updates. Drivers won’t change anything about the raw GPU power anyway. They usually just fix game compatibility.
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-support-matrix
njordomir@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I looked into the P series cards a bit and here is what I found:
The NVIDIA 50-series Blackwell cards require the use of the new open GPU kernel module, but several of NVIDIA’s older generations of GPUs - including the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations - lack the GPU System Processor (GSP) module on their silicon in order to leverage the open kernel module, and thus will no longer function. This includes the GTX 700-series, 900-GTX series, GTX 10-series, the Quadro M-series and P-series, and Tesla M-series and P-series cards.Looks like the 16xx is the lowest cards supported by TrueNAS without extra work. There’s a few used 1660s in my area for ~$100. I might give that a try. If it doesn’t work out, I won’t be despairing for weeks about a $100 card, and if it does work, I’ll replace one of the 1080s with a 1660 for TrueNAS to use as an apps card and leave the other 1080 to pass through to the VM for Home Assistant.
Lurker1347@fedinsfw.app 8 minutes ago
The 16xx (Turing) are the same chips as the 20xx big without Ray Tracing capability. The Quadro T600 may be found cheaper than the 1660Ti since the latter is still is very popular gaming card. I’m still not 100% sure what you really need a GSP for in your setup and I really don’t know why you’d need any gpu to run Home Assistant unless you are running a local LLM as a speech assistant