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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:17 PM
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I am trying decide whether to buy a gtx 770 or r9 280x in hopes of them working with remotefx in hyper-v and hoping to game with them in VMs while utilizing directx.
I have heard of a couple success stories of consumer grade graphics card working fine in 2012 or 2008 server hyper-v with remotefx, such as the gtx 450 or gtx 460 ( i think), gtx 650, maybe some radeon cards.
Since these are older cards I was wondering if there were anymore recent cards that should or have been known to work fine with hyper-v and remotefx under windows server 2008-2012
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:34 PM
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Hopefully this answers your question.
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:54 PM
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Thanks a lot Sajin, you da man~ So based on the selected answer Any DirectX 11 compatible card will work with RemoteFX now, BUT the big difference between consumer and server GPU, seems to be the memory.
We have successfully tested nVidia GeForce 600 and 700 series cards, with a few concurrent users with no issues.
Rpughly 512MB per user/VM session.
But when these consumer cards, only have 2-3GB, you'll not get many sessions, which is why the higher memory cards are better.
The AMD, is Directx 11 compatible, and 4GB card, should be fine.
We just use nVidia, as they are leaders in this area.
Also we have found, that heat, power, 6pin and 8pin connectors can be an issue when trying to install a consumer card in a server in a rack. I should be okay with a gtx 770 4gb running multiple concurrent vms/guests in hyper-v using remotefx. Well I'm off to buy it, wish me luck it all works out
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:57 PM
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Good luck. 
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:51 PM
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Wait so the main deciding factor on how many VMs with remotefx is the vram? So if I hope to use as many vms as possible per card I should aim higher than 4gb and go with a 6gb model?
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:59 PM
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Wait so the main deciding factor on how many VMs with remotefx is the vram? So if I hope to use as many vms as possible per card I should aim higher than 4gb and go with a 6gb model?
Seems to be related to how many sessions you can have going on at one time. More VRAM = more sessions available to be used at anytime.
post edited by Sajin - Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:04 PM
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:05 PM
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Yes a higher amount of vram will allow more sessions at the same time.
The 6GB GTX 780 may be a better choice if the computer has a 8-pin & 6-pin available and if you need the extra simultaneous sessions. Otherwise the 4GB GTX 770 should be fine.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:07 PM
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K, off to get the gtx 780 6gb, thanks ssj92 and Sajin
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:10 PM
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Here's another page regarding RemoteFX: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2013/11/05/gpu-requirements-for-remotefx-on-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx As you can see: In addition to a GPU’s total memory and power consumption, the performance and scale of a VDI system is determined by a variety of additional factors such as storage speed, system memory speed, amount of system memory, number of CPU cores, NUMA implementation, and CPU clock frequency. You'll want the rest of the system to have decent specs as well. The GTX 780 6GB model will be plenty for GPU performance.
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:39 PM
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K yeah, the rest of my rig I already bought about 2 months ago (been stumped with gpu so I've been stalling to put it together since)
The rig looks like this:
Dual e5-2665
64 gig ecc kingston 1600 ram 8x8
supermicro x9da7 mobo
samsung 1tb ssd
1000 watt psu from rosewill 80 plat
rosewill blackhawk ultra
that should compliment the card or vice versa right?
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:23 PM
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That's some serious hardware! Should run fine with the card. ;)
I wish Microsoft would hurry up and enable RemoteFX on Gen 2 VM's. Currently Gen2 VMs can't make use of GPU hardware acceleration. On the flipside, there's not as much limit on how many VMs you can run. My 1.5GB GTX 480 didn't have an issue with 12 concurrent Gen 2 machines ontop of the host OS requirements.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:46 PM
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Don't think it's really too much/that serious, I cut a lot of corners with sales, like psu, case and ssd i saved about 230 off, mobo I bought a fresh refurbished to save like 130, each ram i bought for like 75 off ebay new, the dual e5-2665 i bought for 700 each cause I bought the ES versions, but made sure the stepping code was a good revision to insure stability as much as I could In about 2 years time all this hardware will probably be less than half of what it's worth now lol :( especially with the new cpus coming out in a couple months. Just think about how the new cutting edge cpus with ddr4 and cheaper gb to price ratio for hdd or ssds will be, probably make this stuff look common :( I'm not sure what you mean by Gen 2 VMs? Which Gen of VMs will I be using with hyper-v in windows server 2012 r2 and remotefx?
post edited by woken - Thursday, August 14, 2014 0:01 PM
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:52 PM
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Friday, August 15, 2014 6:38 PM
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Oh hey, with the 800 series coming out next month I should be able to step up to a gtx 880 6gb within 90 days right? I bought my evga gtx 780 off newegg. I have never used the step-up program before, do they still offer it?
Also a gtx 880 should be able to work with remotefx right?
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Re: What consumer grade graphic cards are known to work with hyper-v Remotefx?
Friday, August 15, 2014 6:41 PM
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Oh hey, with the 800 series coming out next month I should be able to step up to a gtx 880 6gb within 90 days right? I bought my evga gtx 780 off newegg. I have never used the step-up program before, do they still offer it?
Also a gtx 880 should be able to work with remotefx right?
Yes, but a 880 6GB will probably not be out in the first 90 days when the 800 series hit, you will probably see 4GB versions first.
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