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Using an nVidia Tesla p40 for rendering on Linux (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen it covered widely for Windows, but I don't know if people have gotten it working on Linux.

I've been thinking about buying an nVidia Tesla p40 off of eBay for a GPU upgrade. Currently I'm running a Quadro M2000 in my Dell Precision T7910 with dual Xeon E5-2620 v3 processors. Obviously, I'll have to work out how to cool it but apparently people have had success with GTX 1080 coolers for dead graphics cards.

I'll need to keep the Quadro for video output since the Xeons have no integrated graphics. I'm hoping it would behave like an Optimus laptop, so I don't have flickering in Xwayland (in preparation for Fedora 40, plus I prefer Wayland anyway).

If anyone has attempted this maybe with another Tesla card I'd like to know how it went.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's kind of a reason why they're so cheap. They're fiddly to deal with, and take a lot of coercion if you want to make it do anything other that what it was designed for (be a headless rendering farm for videos and maybe AI). That said I did find this which might do what you want it to do. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/slzc2u/shocked_and_impressed_by_the_state_of_hybrid/

I want to say back in the Haswell days there was a weird push for having hybrid GPU setups on desktops, and the iGPU would actually help the dGPU in some cases. Maybe you could find something from around then to coax that GPU into working?

That said do you need a Quadro or god forbid the Tesla for what you're doing? A regular ass GTX 1080 would probably better for what you're doing. Founders edition GPUs are a conventional blower and are only the height of the pcie slot (plus power cables).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I might just start with an RX 580 since they're quite cheap here and keep a Quadro around for CUDA stuff and upgrade that to a Tesla in the future if needed.

The most graphically demanding game I have is Age Of Empires III Definitive Edition and I only have 1920x1080 monitors. It's actually playable at near max settings on the Quadro but wouldn't mind a frame rate boost. I'll probably just need to remove the support bracket on the inside of the side panel