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Graphics card upgrade (midwest.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by 7toed@midwest.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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