The problem is most likely twofold, 1. Space, modern GPUs are big and bulky, mostly due to the heatsinks. 1.5 heat dissipation due to the space constraints. 2. power, most server platforms are not equipped with the additional power output(PCIe power rails) to support a GPU. You will also want a power supply that delivers up to 500W/GPU. Even when you have dual power supplies on those servers, the power supplies are redundant and not cumulative. I have not used the R620s, but i know the R720 does support GPUs(i use them in this fashion) only if you use the 1100W power supplies rather than the 750W default power supplies. That all said, i am sure you can find a budget GPU that uses an older core. both nvidia and amd sell budget video cards reusing their older technology. Older cores on modern cards are less power hungry and can be built with smaller heat sinks and without the need for extra power(be fully powered by the PCIe bus). On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > I know there are a number of Linux sysadmins on this list and I'm trying to > decide if Dell is pulling my chain or not. I've got a Dell R620 server that > we need to do some 3D graphics on. > > The onboard graphics card is a Matrox chipset that appears to have very poor > 3D performance under Linux. I asked Dell if I can get a graphics card in the > server that performs better for 3D graphics. Their response was "3rd party > video cards in servers don't support 3D and are only for dual monitor use at > standard VGA resolution". > > Can anyone confirm that there's no solution that will provide better 3D > performance in such a machine? I find it hard to believe that the server > somehow disables the 3D support on the card. Although I don't know that much > about video cards and how they talk to the CPU. > > Thanks. > > Jon > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >