Question Half Height, compact Nvidia-based cards from 2013-15?

[direktor]

Hi,

I've got a particular piece of industrial equipment that uses a Mini-ITX board, that could be more functional with a processing-only GPU installed. The system runs CentOS, and is preconfigured software wise to use an unknown model of Nvidia card if it sees one on the PCI bus (I hope).

Can anybody identify an Nvidia based card that is half height, and possibly shorter than usual, from the 2013-15 era? My hunch is that this would have been a Kepler based card they used. I believe the driver package I have installed could support something newer, if there was a new, small option that didn't exist then that does now. I believe something middle of the road would provide the acceleration I'm looking for.

I'd ask the manufacturer, but they sold the GPU functionality as an add-on box-module that is no longer sold, and impossible to find on the used market. Getting the nitty gritty details would be just as impossible...they would not pass such a question to an engineer for somebody trying to keep ten year old discontinued hardware alive.

Mucho gracias,

 

[tennis2]

GT1030, GTX1050, GTX1050Ti.
Not sure how much sauce you need.

 

[direktor]

GT1030, GTX1050, GTX1050Ti.
Not sure how much sauce you need.

Thanks so much. Yeah, I'm not sure either. I only use GPUs in my work to transcode camera footage in DaVinci Resolve, and even back then we were doing the same but I can't recall what card models were capable of what resolutions/footage/speeds. So if I can find cheap enough, I might buy a couple to try.

This hardware I'm trying to update is an appliance that ingests very high end cinema camera footage, and checks it, modifies metadata, archives to LTO modules, and if I had the "Review" module (which was a module with the Nvidia GPU), could transcode Red/Arri footage much faster than what could be done on a I7 2.7 that it only has.

The main "appliance" body has ONE(!) 16x PCI slot I can leverage without the expansion Review module.

So this is a real hack to attempt.

 

[Tac 25]

@direktor

if you are getting a GT 1030, be sure to get the GDDR5 version.

here is a video comparing the DDR4 GT 1030 with a GDDR5 GT 1030

View: https://youtu.be/a80mtoQklSo