Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi

Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by bullen on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:55AM (#27151537)

Just buy a Jetson Nano 2GB, they are cheaper than a Raspberry 2GB now anyway (atleast in Sweden where the Raspberry is sold out and Arrow has free shipping of the Jetson). And that little 10W machine is 1/2 a Nintendo Switch, it can play my MMO engine with 300 characters on screen without world or physics (probably 100 players when the game is complete):

http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by kanwisher on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:50AM (#27152202)

If you follow his channel he just wants to push the Pi to the limits, and part of that is documenting all pci/e devices that work on the pi. The nano doesn't have Pci/e

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by my123 on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:10AM (#27152644)

Jetson Nano has PCIe, exposed through the M.2 slot. Far more bandwidth than an RPi too.

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by papercrane on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:29AM (#27153495)

The suggested 2GB Nano doesn't have the M.2 slot, instead it has 802.11ac wireless.

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by my123 on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:48AM (#27154885)

If I remember well, it’s just a regular M2 Wi-Fi card included inside.

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by numpad0 on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:07AM (#27155072)

Looks like the redesigned carrier board for 2GB is missing M.2 Key E connector

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by geerlingguy on Friday May 14, 2021 @12:09PM (#27155824)

I'm more interested in trying to get my hands on a SolidRun Honeycomb board, or heck, if the stars aligned, an Ampere server... I figure it might give a good reference for a better/full-featured ARM PCI Express implementation (especially the Ampere as it implements the latest ARM arch).

That goes against some of my "get things done the cheapest way possible" philosophy, but it would be nice to be able to test things on hardware where it is known to _likely_ work.

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Re:Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi by bullen on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:10PM (#27156730)

I'm actually stacking Raspberry 2/4 as servers with 1TB SanDisk (slow but with enough distribution fast enough)...

But right now I'm investing in Mini-ITX Atom 8/16-core servers (25/32W) with passively cooled cases (Streacom) and 8x64GB SATA SSDs from 2011 (50nm that last 100.000 writes per bit for 2W per drive = 18W total)!

So the Raspberries are an option if power becomes unstable/expensive, gonna have lead-acid backup and Gb/s fiber in appartement/summer house for 100% read uptime redundancy!

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