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What interesting can I do with a dedicated GPU? (piefed.jeena.net)
submitted 17 hours ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/technology@beehaw.org
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For the first time in my life I own a PC with a reasonable powerful dedicated graphics card. It's the Nvidia RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM. I know it's older and so on but before that I only had laptops and integrated GPUs which were not very powerful.

I bought it specifically to edit videos and it works very well for it. But I edit videos perhaps once a month and the rest of the time the GPU is practically idling.

What I found is that I can run up to 14b big LLMs on it, so I set it up and am using it for that too, and it's really a lot of fun which I didn't quite expect.

And therefore I'm wondering what other fun things I could do with this graphics card, any tips?

Gaming is not very entertaining to me, I do it even more seldom than video editing, so I'm looking for other things.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Have a bunch of fun with Stable Diffusion and whatever models you feel like downloading on CivitAI.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, wow, I didn't realize that would be so much fun! And it's somehow faster than the ones online too, and you can really do a lot with all the different models you can download!

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Those front hooves scare me

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)

Surprised that the first go to isn't the tiny horse attached to the back of the main one or the fact that the astronaut also has no feet.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 minutes ago

The small horse is just getting a good sniff, and no feet isn't unsettling.