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Graphics card upgrade (midwest.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by 7toed@midwest.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello yall, currently I have an RTX 2060, which I'll be passing down to slap a 1060 into my server, but I'd like to weigh some options first.

The 2060 has been pretty good with Linux thus far, I'm a little worried about going to the 30 series - so I'll be accepting affirmations - but I am curious what any of you think about AMD cards and which one to get. Also if there's any reason not to use a 1060 for jellyfin and such that would be very helpful

Edit: thanks yall! Settled on an RX6600, runs local LLMs like nothing compared to my ol 2060

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[-] filister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

What are you going to use this GPU for. Simply for playing and you don't care about ray tracing AMD is king. Or if you find a deal on Intel.

Self hosting LLMs and hobby AI/ML projects, NVIDIA.

Blender - NVIDIA

Internet Streaming - NVIDIA

Video editing - NVIDIA

Plex/Jellyfin - Intel

Unfortunately in most cases NVIDIA is still the king.

Check this link that will give you some ideas about the different GPUs: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Kinda lowballed and got an RX6600, honestly pretty chuffed how well it runs LLMs compared to my 2060. Still last gen, but admittedly I've only been playing factorio as of late, and Im not so graphics focused

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 2 weeks ago

NVidia is great in a server, drivers are a pain but do-able. I have a 3000 series that I use regularly and pass into my kubernetes cluster. NVidia on a gaming rig linux is fine, but there is more overhead with the drivers.

AMD is great in gaming servers, but doesn't have CUDA, so it's not as useful in a server environment in my experience - if you're thinking of doing CUDA workloads like hosting LLMs.

1060 will be a noticeable step in Jellyfin

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't even realize CUDA had a weight on LLMs, thank you!

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah, critical component. And vram, in fact I would only consider LLMs on a 3000+ card right now, they require quite a bit of vram

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you have an Intel CPU with quicksync, it will likely perform better than the 1060 in terms of visual quality, if its coffee lake or newer (8th gen).

If not, well, it'll be fine up to whatever the stream limit is (4?).

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Xeon E5-2640 unfortunately does not, though still an upgrade of what I have now. Stream limit seems entirely configurable, so that will be just a matter of stress testing.

Won't lie I always forget about all the new CPU hardware acceleration after using decade old hardware for so long 😅

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah quicksync won't help you there.

I thought nVidia's limit was enforced by their drivers, but that's probably changed since it's been a while since I looked at nvenc as a solution (quicksync, then an ARC card over here).

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nvidia drivers work the same now as a few years ago.

If you don't like it, migrate.

If you don't mind it, keep it.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

555 drivers have given me a couple issues on my main PC, I've heard of some issues with newer cards but I figure its just a matter of time before better drivers. I haven't had to touch pci passthroughs yet and I was unsure if theres more a challenge on server hardware with Nvidia, but it sounds like I'll be happy to have CUDA

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