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Tag: Video Cards

  • More PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB Photos

    PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB video card installed in a MicroATX AMD Ryzen 7 system.

    I’ve been pleased with the performance of the PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB video card that I got to replace the A6000 (before and after photos here). While the new card has less memory, bandwidth, and horsepower, it does what I need it to do.

    Also, as you can see in the photo above, it’s installed length is the same as my ASUS micro ATX motherboard. The card’s specs state that it is 9.65″ long, which makes sense accounting for the bracket that extends beyond the motherboard at the back of the case. For the space conscious builders, this card is a nice fit for micro ATX builds.

    Here are some more photos of the card outside the computer:

    PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB video card, back view, upside down.
    PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB video card, back view, right side up.
    PNY NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB video card, front view of the dual fans.

  • Before and After Video Card Views

    AMD Ryzen 7 System with NVIDIA A6000 Video Card

    When I swapped out the NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB (seen above) for the RTX 4060Ti 16GB (seen below), I rerouted the main motherboard power cable and installed extra hard drives in the bottom power supply enclosure.

    At peak, the video card power draw has gone from 300w to 140w. The noise of the 4060Ti’s fans is a little more noticeable during full load, perhaps due to it’s open blowing fan design as opposed to the enclosed blower design of the A6000. And, I’ve re-familiarized myself with the memory optimizing features of A1111 for image generation, which I used to have to make use of with my old RTX 3070 8GB video card that I had before upgrading to the A6000. Later this week, I’ll test out how many LLM layers I can load on to the 4060Ti’s 16GB of VRAM with koboldcpp.

    AMD Ryzen 7 PC with NVIDIA RTX 4060Ti 16GB Video Card.

  • College Cat Studying in the Stacks, and Video Card Downgrade

    Anthropomorphic cat wearing a hoodie, sitting in a library, studying two open books. Image created in Stable Diffusion.

    I decided to sell my NVIDIA RTX A6000 video card and downgrade to an RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB GDDR6.

    I’ll miss loading large LLMs on the A6000’s 48GB of memory, but between the 16GB of memory on the 4060 and my computer’s 128GB DDR4 RAM, I can get my work done–it’ll just take some magnitudes longer in some cases.

    The college cat studying image above was one of the last that I generated with Stable Diffusion on the A6000.

    Swapping out the video cards was completely painless on Debian 12 with NVIDIA drivers 525.147.05. I pulled out the A6000 and its power adapter, and installed the 4060 and connected its single power cable.