Nvidia Tesla P100 vGPU Cloud Gaming Performance!

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Published 2024-04-04
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I've tested what feels like dozens of Enterprise GPUs inside my Cloud Gaming Server, but Nvidia's Pascal series has been prohibitively expensive until very recently. The Tesla P100 has fallen from $1000 to just $165 in the last few months, which means it's time to see what it can do.

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All Comments (21)
  • @bad_dragon
    "not everyone is crazy enough to have a server rack in their garage" yeah i got mine in my bedroom LMAO
  • @richardsontm
    Would be great to see a P4 v P40 v P100 head to head. Having a blend of Cloud Gaming and Ollama performance would be interesting for those looking for a homelab/homegamer/AI tinkerer all-rounder too 👍
  • @iraqigeek8363
    You can get P100 for $100 only since at least last October if you "Make an Offer" Not all sellers will accept it, but a few will. I bought 4 of them at $100 last year
  • @xpatrikpvp
    One thing to mention would be that latest supported vgpu driver for the P100 (also other pascal gpus P4/P40) is version 16.4 They dropped support in the latest 17.0/17.1
  • @lewzealand4717
    7:57 Oops, you compared Time Spy on the P100 VM to Time Spy Extreme on the Radeon 7600. The 7600 gets ~11,000 in Time Spy, or about twice the single-VM score shown.
  • The cloud gaming aspect initially got my attention, but I think a lot of us are going to be more curious how they perform running Ollama at home. Looking forward to more of this series.
  • @pierrelavoie7399
    All P100 Ebay listings went up 50$ since you posted this video hahaha
  • @TheInternalNet
    This is really really exciting. Thank you for never giving up on this project. This is the exact card I am considering for ML/AI to run in my R720xd.
  • @joshklein
    Any videos with proxmox and gpus i love to watch! Keep them coming!
  • @yzeitlin
    We are still patiently awaiting the Hyper-V homelab video you mentioned on talking heads! love the content
  • @MyAeroMove
    Best series! Love to watch such kind of tinkering!
  • @TheXDS
    I love your vGPU content Jeff! You actually inspired me to build a small homelab with a P100, though the CPUs on my server are somewhat older than I would like (a pair E5-2690 v4 CPUs)
  • @chromerims
    Love the vGPU cloud gaming content 👍
  • @joseph3164
    Great video, always love to see the enterprise hardware for home server use. What are you using for licensing servers for these cards? Are you just using the 90 day trial from nvidia, or are you using some type of fastapi-dls server?
  • @smalle
    These are pretty dang impressive. This might be the coolest/most approachable card you’ve shown so far!
  • @th3r3v92
    I've been using my Tesla P4 with an Erying 12800H ITX board as a home server for almost a year now, and I absolutely love it. I have a Win10 vGPU VM running on it, primarily used by my girlfriend, but it's also great when friends come over for a quick LAN session. I was really disappointed when I found out a few weeks ago that NVIDIA dropped Pascal support from the GRID driver.
  • @j_ferguson
    I absolutely need those BEER coasters. Also, I was very lucky to go to Block 15 during the last solar eclipse and had Hypnosis a cognac barrel aged barleywine. Their Nebula and Super Nebula stouts are way more common and still delicious though.
  • @techpchouse
    Great 💪🏽 thinking about an upgrade from the P4 to 10/100
  • @ATechGuy-mp6hn
    I've seen the sponsor spot for the cloud gaming machine from maximum settings on this channel before, but its kinda ironic that you are setting up your own gaming server afterwards
  • @d3yuen
    We (my company) owns 5 Dell PowerEdge 740s with two P100-16G-HBM each, but we used VMware vSphere as our hypervisor. Going on 4+ years, they continue to be excellent and reliable cards - still in active service today for VDI. With Dell Premier Enterprise pricing, we got them at considerably less than MSRP. It's the ongoing support and maintenance paid periodically to Dell, VMware and NVidia that's the killer. Pro tip: it's important that you line up the driver versions from the hypervisor down to your guests. That is, the driver version on your guest must be supported by the driver running in the hypervisor. 😅