Post by @Lurker1347@fedinsfw.app

2026-11-01 07:54 UTC

I’m not sure about AMD but for Nvidia it can matter which generation of NVENC and NVDEC chips you have, as well as the number of them. Myself, I use the P400 which is pretty much a 1050. If you don’t need to update the drivers per se for it to work I would suggest freezing updates. Drivers won’t change anything about the raw GPU power anyway. They usually just fix game compatibility. https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-support-matrix

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@njordomir@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 08:33

Thanks for the suggestion. I looked into the P series cards a bit and here is what I found: The NVIDIA 50-series Blackwell cards require the use of the new open GPU kernel module, but several of NVIDIA’s older generations of GPUs - including the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations - lack the GPU System Processor (GSP) module on their silicon in order to leverage the open kernel module, and thus will no longer function. This includes the GTX 700-series, 900-GTX series, GTX 10-series, the Quadro M-series and P-series, and Tesla M-series and P-series cards. Looks like the 16xx is the lowest cards supported by TrueNAS without extra work. There’s a few used 1660s in my area for ~$100. I might give that a try. If it doesn’t work out, I won’t be despairing for weeks about a $100 card, and if it does work, I’ll replace one of the 1080s with a 1660 for TrueNAS to use as an apps card and leave the other 1080 to pass through to the VM for Home Assistant.

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