SOLVED Best GPU without a power connector.

[don256us]

I have a client looking for a new GPU. His Dell branded workstation does not have any power connectors for a GPU. I'm currently looking at 1650's and 6400's from NVIDIA and AMD respectively. Is there anything better that does not need a 6 or 8-pin connector?

 

[Janus67]

1650 super is what I have in my plex server. Guess it depends on the use case?

But I think that's about it minus maybe a low end quadro or similar which will be far more expensive

Edit: super requires 6 pin, non-super doesnt

 

[mackerel]

3050 6GB is now the most powerful consumer tier GPU without needing power connector. If you want to throw money at it there is the workstation RTX A2000 and RTX 2000 Ada.

 

[Zerileous]

There are also six/eight pin molex/sata adapters, not that I would put a huge load through them but a little extra juice sure.

 

[don256us]

There are also six/eight pin molex/sata adapters, not that I would put a huge load through them but a little extra juice sure.

Yeah. I'm going to take a look at the physical machine for a few minutes this evening.

The 3050 6GB is a great option that I didn't know was out there. Thank you.

 

[Evilsizer]

do not forget the Arc A380, what is the current video card or IGP being used?

 

[mackerel]

A380 is a 75W class device but you need to check if the model needs a power connector or not. My sample from Asrock does have a power connector. 3060 6GB is going to be a better solution in general unless price is the biggest thing. Original ask was "best", which without context is usually taken to be performance. A380 is closer to the 1650 than 3050.

 

[don256us]

The current card is an AMD WX 3200. Just about anything is faster now. I think that the 3050 is about 7,000% faster according to at least one web site.

Thank you everyone.

 

[mackerel]

Looking up the WX 3200 it is Polaris with no direct consumer desktop equivalent. On paper spec it is below RX 560.

 

[don256us]

Looking up the WX 3200 it is Polaris with no direct consumer desktop equivalent. On paper spec it is below RX 560.

Yeah. It's painful. It's a very high end workstation that gets used to watch YouTube. Not for me to judge.

 

[Evilsizer]

out of the options, for just youtube, RX 6400 IMO. while its the same price as its bigger brother, the Arc A310. if he sticks with it long term, its intel, i don't think the drop driver support like NV/AMD. If he is more worried about AV1 decoding then Arc or RTX 3050. navi 24, which the 6400/6500 is does not have AV1. NV looks to have the more up to date VP engine

The eleventh generation of PureVideo HD, introduced with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3060, RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050, an Ampere (microarchitecture) GPU, with fifth generation NVDEC introduces 8K@60 hardware-decoding capability for AV1 Main profile (4:0:0 and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling with 8 or 10-bit depth) with resolution of up to 8192 x 8192 pixels to the GPU's video-engine.

The eleventh generation PureVideo HD is sometimes called "PureVideo HD 11" or "VP11", although this is not an official Nvidia designation. This generation of PureVideo HD corresponds to Nvidia Feature Set K (or "VDPAU Feature Set K").

Arc has a fixed AV1 decoding but i can not seem to find more detailed information on it.