EPYC + Consumer Nvidia?

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Anyone try Gigabyte mz32-ar0, Supermicro H12SSL, Tyan S3080, or ROMED8-2T motherboards with Nvidia Consumer GPUs ?

Planning an AI build, but strictly with consumer Nvidia GPUs, many of them, 3000 and 4000 series (3090 and 4090) .

I saw a video where a reviewer claimed they cannot run Nvidia consumer GPUs, and another where the reviewer was running 2080ti so I am mixed up on it.

Anyone know for certain if any of those boards will serve my purpose?

Please let me know, thx.

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No, the Epyc motherboards can run Nvidia consumer cards just fine.

I run Asrock Rack EPYCD8 and ROMED8-2T motherboards with two RTX 3080’s and a 2080 Ti each with no issues at all.

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I’d recommend not trusting anything from that reviewer! Maybe send them a comment asking them on what basis they are saying that?

EPYCs love all the GPUs you give them, what else are 128 PCIe lanes for? :slight_smile:

I’m using a desktop with a 74F3 on a ROMED8-2T here for over 2 years, no problems at all for me using various Nvidia cards (and AMD cards) in different configs:

  • Used a 2080Ti for a year, multi booting Linux, FreeBSD and Windows 10
  • Added a 4080, using the 2080Ti for VMs
  • Replaced the 2080Ti with a Radeon RX 7800XT as the host card, and the 4080 for VMs (mostly Windows games, and OpenCL apps).

The latest ASRockRack BIOS updates add ReBAR support too (confirmed working here: BAR 1: current size: 16GB), which might help some types of VRAM access patterns. Check if that matters to you because not all boards support ReBAR.

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Link? So I can go there and tell them WTF they did wrong.

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One thing that I have personal experience with is the compatibility with consumer cards and server operating systems. When you use either Linux or Windows 10 or Windows 11 on the machine it will work fine with consumer GPUs, but there are NO drivers for consumer GPUs for Windows Server at all! An Nvidia 3090 won’t work on Windows Server 2022. Windows Server will refuse to install drivers for consumer cards.

I’ve read that maybe somewhere out there exists hacks to make it work, but there is no official support for this.

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Pretty sure it’s the drivers that dictate that. I mean, neither should be artificially segmented like that…

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Now that I think about what I wrote, I think you are right. It’s most likely the consumer driver refusing being installed on Windows Server.

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The hardware will be just fine with each other.
Software wise, you could be looking at some petty “I am a consumer driver, and this is a Server OS”, especially in Windows/MS Server land.