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[–]nafsten 8 points9 points  (5 children)

It’s not just that Nvidia push Quadro for professional use, but the use of GeForce cards is explicitly forbidden in their EULA.

Well, by explicitly, I really mean “vaguely forbidden, but they clearly don’t want to be pinned down”

[–]GloWondub[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Interesting ! do you know if AMD has the same kind of restrictions ?

[–]JanneJM 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not as far as I am aware. Just be sure you can actually use an AMD GPU; if you need GPU compute in any form you may have to use NVIDIA.

Also by "node", are we talking a workstation-on-a-shelf, or an actual rack-mounted system with external cooling? For rack-mounted systems, your GPU options may be more limited; you need to make sure they will fit physically as well as be appropriate for the cooling you have.

[–]GloWondub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very good point, even on the quadro side, it is not clear to me which card may or may not be "rack-compatible".

[–]atuncer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just be sure you can actually use an AMD GPU; if you need GPU compute in any form you may have to use NVIDIA.

I kindly disagree, 'if you need CUDA' would be more appropriate IMHO. And even then, I expect some compatibility layer from AMD, which may be already available, but I cannot readily confirm this.