Homelab

371 readers

9 users here now

Rules

Be Civil.
Post about your homelab, discussion of your homelab, questions you may have, or general discussion about transition your skill from the homelab to the workplace.
No memes or potato images.
We love detailed homelab builds, especially network diagrams!
Report any posts that you feel should be brought to our attention.
Please no shitposting or blogspam.
No Referral Linking.
Keep piracy discussion off of this community

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

GPU for R730 running ESXi 7.0 suggestions (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm looking to do some video editing and a little gaming on a single dedicated windows VM on my R730 currently running ESXi 7.0. The plan is to access via Parsec. I'm not looking for ultra performance. I'd like to keep it under $250 if possible. I noticed some of the Tesla cards can be had for pretty cheap. Is there any reason to not consider a Tesla card that I haven't seen in my searches? If Tesla is a decent option which one would fit the bill? Or is there better value going with an 'unsupported' consumer based card? Thanks!

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I can't speak 100% to the R730 but I have run a P4 and P40 in a R720 without any issues power and cooling wise. I see that /u/marc45ca mentioned cooling issues, but I couldn't find anything.

That said, the P4 provides a low bar to entry for vGPU. The P40 is the P4's much larger brother. There are licenses that are necessary to "activate" the drivers for both but...

I will admit, neither of these cards are ideal for AI, at least in my testing. They do well in 1080/1440p gaming and accelerated remote desktop, with the P40 coming out on top but at a significant power cost compared to the P4.