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

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    18 days ago

    If you have an Intel CPU with quicksync, it will likely perform better than the 1060 in terms of visual quality, if its coffee lake or newer (8th gen).

    If not, well, it’ll be fine up to whatever the stream limit is (4?).

    • 7toed@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

      Xeon E5-2640 unfortunately does not, though still an upgrade of what I have now. Stream limit seems entirely configurable, so that will be just a matter of stress testing.

      Won’t lie I always forget about all the new CPU hardware acceleration after using decade old hardware for so long 😅

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        Yeah quicksync won’t help you there.

        I thought nVidia’s limit was enforced by their drivers, but that’s probably changed since it’s been a while since I looked at nvenc as a solution (quicksync, then an ARC card over here).