Best small graphics cards?

[Lord Nicoll]

I'm looking for quite a specific list of requirments that make finding a card hard. Being it must be single slot, full height, not much longer than the PCIe slot, although there is a few inches of room, and there can't be external PCIe power. I'd prefer a Nvidia Quadro over AMD Firepro since even the professional drivers for AMD are not as good for Linux, but both work for openCL/CUDA enough. I couldn't find all that many cards that fit that description, so either I didn't look very hard or there really are that few that would fit.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Look for various flavors of the 750Ti. Its a great card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487025 this one perhaps?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Fastest is the tesla p40 which is a sinlge slo low profile gtx 1070/1080.

 

Otherwise there is a k1200(about a gtx 750)

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Look for various flavors of the 750Ti. Its a great card.

Driver support isn't up to par for it for CUDA acceleration, (I have two and they under perform to below what I expect) as well as having to have their coolers removed and replaced with a custom flat one I cut from an extraded aluminium piece. They should have worked nicely, but did as good as my GT 730 did on windows for CUDA acceleration. 

 

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Fastest is the tesla p40 which is a sinlge slo low profile gtx 1070/1080.

 

Otherwise there is a k1200(about a gtx 750)

Yeah, those are the two best ones that I came across, guess small server GPUs are a very small section of the market. Welp

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Driver support isn't up to par for it for CUDA acceleration, (I have two and they under perform to below what I expect) as well as having to have their coolers removed and replaced with a custom flat one I cut from an extraded aluminium piece. They should have worked nicely, but did as good as my GT 730 did on windows for CUDA acceleration. 

 

Yeah, those are the two best ones that I came across, guess small server GPUs are a very small section of the market. Welp

What are you doing with this?

 

Do you need video out? Could you off load it to a server. There are ways to do some opencl over the network or use a external pcie gpu power like a nvidia tesla 1u box.

[Lord Nicoll]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Fastest is the tesla p40 which is a sinlge slo low profile gtx 1070/1080.

 

Otherwise there is a k1200(about a gtx 750)

The problem with the Tesla P40 is the half height PCIe bracket, it won't fit easily. But a Tesla would be prefered since no outputs will be used on this.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

The problem with the Tesla P40 is the half height PCIe bracket, it won't fit easily. But a Tesla would be prefered since no outputs will be used on this.

You can get a full height bracket. The big problem with that is cooling. They need those server fans that spin at like 10000 rpm to keep them cool

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What are you doing with this?

 

Do you need video out? Could you off load it to a server. There are ways to do some opencl over the network or use a external pcie gpu power like a nvidia tesla 1u box.

Yeah its for a server for BOINC and other programmes that are taking a little too long on the aging Xeon X5670s

 

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can get a full height bracket. The big problem with that is cooling. They need those server fans that spin at like 10000 rpm to keep them cool

Yeah, the fana are more than capable to keep two 95 watt chios cool in a U1 chassis so keeping a PCIe card with two 30mm counter spinning fans should be easy

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Yeah its for a server for BOINC and other programmes that are taking a little too long on the aging Xeon X5670s

 

Yeah, the fana are more than capable to keep two 95 watt chios cool in a U1 chassis so keeping a PCIe card with two 30mm counter spinning fans should be easy

What case is this going in.

 

If you want a server for this, Id get this http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVidia-Tesla-S1070-1U-GPU-Computing-System-4x-M1060-C1060-Rackmount-2x-HIC-Cable-/152265395934?hash=item2373b98ede:g:bMIAAOSwNRdX8rO9 and put new gpu's in it.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-1U-SYS-6016GT-Server-Barebone-System-X8DTG-DF-No-CPU-GPU-RAM-HDD-/300723117442?hash=item46047e9d82:m:mdlkqv-qnRKOdy8meBwnCiw

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-X8DTG-D-Tesla-GPU-Server-2x-CPU-x5520-2-27GHZ-24-GB-RAM-/151138005711?hash=item233086f2cf:g:alQAAOxy8e9SUY7m

[Lord Nicoll]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What case is this going in.

 

If you want a server for this, Id get this http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVidia-Tesla-S1070-1U-GPU-Computing-System-4x-M1060-C1060-Rackmount-2x-HIC-Cable-/152265395934?hash=item2373b98ede:g:bMIAAOSwNRdX8rO9 and put new gpu's in it.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-1U-SYS-6016GT-Server-Barebone-System-X8DTG-DF-No-CPU-GPU-RAM-HDD-/300723117442?hash=item46047e9d82:m:mdlkqv-qnRKOdy8meBwnCiw

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-X8DTG-D-Tesla-GPU-Server-2x-CPU-x5520-2-27GHZ-24-GB-RAM-/151138005711?hash=item233086f2cf:g:alQAAOxy8e9SUY7m

It is going in a HPE ProLiant DL160 G6. I would consider more of them (I have far too many already) but the import fees and all the extra addons would make it easily €500 extra, granted that is no where near as much as I've aloted for a co-processor, breathing more life into my existing set up, classic old "won't update would rather upgrade. The area there is where it'd have to go, the braket behind it can be removed.