BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
De:       fusion
Data:     Thu, 21 May 2026 16:09:00 +0000
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On 21 May 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF>  I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
 pF>  If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
 pF>  I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
 pF>  the graphics card is for one game.

yeah. the gpu is actually several processors. or groups of them on the GPU die i guess. then think of the display part as (in this context) an unrelated place to dump stuff.

you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen. instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these ones are
specific ..

i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400 (~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on eBay..

the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want AV1 support

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