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hackerfoo | 5 months ago

I’m interested in putting one of these in a server because of the relatively low power usage and compact size.

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askl|5 months ago

Why would you need a dedicated graphics card in a server? Usually you wouldn't even have a monitor connected.

I have an NVidia Tesla P40 in my home NAS/media server that I use for video encoding purposes. It doesn’t even have any video outputs, but it does have dual media encoders and a decent amount of VRAM for lots of (relatively) high quality simultaneous transcoding streams using NVENC/NVDEC to re-encode 4K Blu-ray remux’s on the fly.

akaij|5 months ago

My guess would be video encoding/decoding and rendering.

imtringued|5 months ago

Some people are tired of rendering everything on the CPU via AVX.