Gaming on my NVIDIA Tesla GPUs - Part 1 - NVIDIA Maxwell

9:47 "I think it's finally time to say goodbye to Kepler, altogether." Considering it's been almost 3 years since Kepler support was discontinued, likely Maxwell will be dropped any day now too. I half expected Jeff to stuff this thing with Pascal or higher. I just sold off a couple Maxwell based Quadro's before I expect their value to take a dip.

I’m excited for the P version of this video as I feel that is the best spot right now

Aside from gaming, Tesla P40s make for a cheap, though slow, but still useable alternative for hosting LLMs. 24GB VRAM helps.

Really looking Forward to the Pascal results. I have a p40 I haven't been able to test yet but am hoping I can make a low cost VDI server for small and low demand CAD clients.

Happy to see the Tesla vGPU series is back! It has been my fav series in the past. This got me into so many discoveries in the past. It would be nice to see more detailed installation instructions as setup can be challenging

By default, the Frame Rate Limiter (FRL) is enabled for all GPUs (60FPS). The FRL is disabled when the vGPU scheduling behavior is changed from the default best-effort scheduler on GPUs that support alternative vGPU schedulers. The Tesla M10 is actually stronger than the GRID M40 by 20%-25%.

Look forward to the P40 test as I have a couple of these in a X99 desktop board with E5-2597 V4. Mostly been playing with AI inference but spinning up some local cloud for older games seems like it could be interesting.

I've been looking forward to this series! Thanks for the great content, Jeff!

Good experiment setup. Love these proper benchmarks

16:40 Helldivers 2 is quite CPU heavy. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison: you're probably seeing the more modern 7840U cores pull ahead of the Broadwell cores, despite the Tesla GPUs being faster than 780M in GPU-bound scenarios.

I love my M40 even though I don't use it much anymore. I don't understand why the Pascal stuff hasn't really dropped much in price though. It seems like it's holding on for dear life.

Maxwell is not dead yet, it has D3D 12_1 support, and the lattest drivers still support them. U could still run fine any modern game with a GTX 980 Ti.

Good run through. Looking forward to the Pascal tests.

Thanks for the video! Looking forward to the pascal results. Tesla P4 is a powerhouse of a LP gpu

Now I want to see a 16 player classic deathmatch on one server! ;)

Awesome video! I love the idea of a virtual gaming PC! On another note, can you do a super quick video breaking down the naming convention for Nvidia/AMD server cards? Specs aren’t usually too hard to find, but broad descriptions of series’s and product lines are extremely rare

Noticing that most of these old compute cards are cheap due to new AI services not supporting the older cuda version. Triton server for example supports cuda 6 and newer (going off memory here), and the tesla m40 24gb is cuda 5.2 . Did learn this the hard way too since nvidia docs weren’t clear, so wasted money on a card

I'm actually doing something similar but a bit less technical. I plan on upgrading my powerful gaming PC so it can handle any game I want to play, but I have a pretty small office space and I don't want to play games in a sauna... so I'm going to put my gaming PC in my garage and use steam remote play to display the games off a smaller PC actually in my office. Your method seems to be quite a bit more compact than the 4U server chasis I found for my computer 😅. Also, during my testing to make sure my setup would work, I found that Steam Link (an older version of Steam remote play that you can install on Raspberry Pis) doesn't like AMD graphics cards. It works just fine with NVIDIA cards (I don't have any Intel cards to test) but AMD cards do not work well😅 I think it's an encoding issue. Awesome video by the way! Keep up the awesome work!

To solve a previous delima about a z420 water cooler, you need to snip or cut the 5 pin plug-ins botton side and just slide it on the 6 pin cpu fan header starting on the top pin. I did it and it actually to my surprise works great. The 140w 6850k i7 I have never gets above 60°C on high end AAA games like Helldiver2 and usually runs in the 30-40°C range, where before it ran up tp 100°C and sometimes would crash while performance would drop off. Amazing all in one water cooler I must say.

This server case is exactly what i need to replace my r720xd thats my cloud gaming rig right now. Im running a pair of M40 card setup for passthrough for myself and the step kid. And this was 100% a gaming video. And i understand and respect that. But while not for this, the k80 is still relevant. If you ever get into playing around with AI, toss a few in there if you have them laying around. Thanks for the instructions on that by the way, saved me alot of headaches. Also, i take my daily coffee with a roughly measured 2.5 floz of heavy/whipping cream into about 17 floz of bold coffee. Sometimes i even roast it myself with a cheap air popcorn machine (which you should check out by the way. Makes a terrible mess with the chaff, my wife eants to kill me when i do it indoors, so dont do it indoors)