OK to use nVidia GTX 1660 for PVE 8.3 ?

[SpookyAction]

Hi,

Are there any issues with regards to NVidia graphic card in Proxmox?

I will be given a machine which has a graphic card nVidia GTX 1660. Planning to install Proxmox 8.3 which most of the time will run with the monitor off. My usage of PVE will not need any GPU pass-through.

Heard about NVidia cards not recommended in Linux. If there is any troubles, I would look for a used low power AMD graphic card.

 

[BobhWasatch]

NVidia is problematic because their drivers are proprietary and aren't included in most Linux distributions. They have to be compiled for the kernel you have and they tend to lag behind the latest kernels (see the many threads here about problems with NVidia and upgrades). There is a free driver called "noveau" which is supposed to support the GTX-1660 but probably not with the same performance as the proprietary one.

If you're just using it for the PVE console, the cheapest AMD or Intel card you can find is probably the best choice since 3D graphics is irrelevant (PVE has no GUI) and those vendors are much better supported in Linux.

 

[mr44er]

My usage of PVE will not need any GPU pass-through.

This is no problem. Proxmox has nouveau as default and it works.

Heard about NVidia cards not recommended in Linux. If there is any troubles, I would look for a used low power AMD graphic card.

Both have pros and cons and problems in different scenarios.

If you just use proxmox-console for it...use nouveau (default) for nvidia and amdgpu (default) for radeons. Problems arise if you would want passthrough.

 

[alexskysilk]

Are there any issues with regards to NVidia graphic card in Proxmox?

No, but thats the wrong question to ask. What do you intend to do with it?

 

[SpookyAction]

No, but thats the wrong question to ask. What do you intend to do with it?

Thank you gentlemen. Let me clarify

I just want to install a basic Proxmox 8.3 server. Then remote control the Proxmox server via SSH. Using Proxmox to create various Linux VMs, LXC containers. Learn to playaround with NAS, File server, practice network config on a Linux VM/LXC. Toying with Kubernetes cluster.

The Proxmox server itself will have monitor turned off most of the time. The VMs or LXC containers are text-only kind of install no graphic user interface. There is no workload which requires 3D graphics or GPU capabilities. Only text (and colored text) display is needed.

What I hope is when I install Proxmox on that machine, the installer is able to detect the NVidia card and displays the text on the monitor so that I could complete the installation. Then from a remote machine, I use either SSH or the PVE WebAdmin interface to interact with Proxmox.

More exactly I hope I won't need to do any extra step to cope with the particularity of that NVidia graphic card. Whether its before, during, after installation. In particular, I hope the NVidia card sitting in the server will not interfere with Proxmox functionalities (causing bug, leak, over consumption of power, etc.)

 

[SpookyAction]

There is a free driver called "noveau" which is supposed to support the GTX-1660 but probably not with the same performance as the proprietary one.

If you're just using it for the PVE console, the cheapest AMD or Intel card you can find is probably the best choice since 3D graphics is irrelevant (PVE has no GUI) and those vendors are much better supported in Linux.

Jeez, NVidia looks like a cancer! Does the level of performance really matter to display text? Because my usage scenarios don't have any graphic interface or GPU involved.

 

[_gabriel]

3d card for an headless server works of course, but is a bit oversized

no igpu available ?

 

[BobhWasatch]

Jeez, NVidia looks like a cancer! Does the level of performance really matter to display text?

Not really. If that is your only use case the nouveau driver should be fine. I would get something else if you have not purchased it yet is all.

 

[alexskysilk]

Jeez, NVidia looks like a cancer! Does the level of performance really matter to display text? Because my usage scenarios don't have any graphic interface or GPU involved.

it'll work just fine out of the box. you wont need to do anything.