I own a TVS-AIh1688ATX (QTS 6.0 beta 3) on which I might one day be tempted to do RAG locally. Given the power of the power supply in this NAS, which graphics card or RTX/RTX Pro (blackwell) could be compatible?
According to the manual, my power supply is 550W, not enough to power a RTX Pro 6000 for example (out of budget anyway), but I wonder if a 200W card could pass.
Afterwards, an RTX Pro 6000 seems to consume 600W according to the internet. I don’t know if it could pass, but at least there is a little more leeway for installing a board if the power supply is 750W and not 550W.
Per the QNAP compatibility list the drivers max out on the RTX 4060. I just installed a ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Twin Edge OC DLSS 3 8GB GDDR6 128-bit 17 Gbps PCIE 4.0 into my ATX-AIH1688atx, and it was immediately recognized. After insalling I was prompted to install the QNAP Nvidia driver from the store. I configured it as a QTS device so all app’s could see it. Other choices as I recall are Container Station and Virtualization something or other.
There is one other 4060 in the list as well. I forget the manufacture, but I’d take a look and see for yourself. The card I got while per spec is larger than what the TVS-AHI1688 supports, just fits. It was the height and width that were tight. Length was fine. Power was a single 8 pin which is supplied in your TVS-AHI1688 already.
I’m only interested in using it for transcoding video. It handles (4) simultaneous 4K streams without issue and that’s what I wanted it for. The NPU in the 1688 is plenty fast enough for any AI work I have ATM, so I wasn’t really interested in VRAM when I bought it.
The biggest problem I would anticipate with the RTX Pro 4000 SFF is that there are no QNAP drivers available for it. It’s a Blackwell based GPU (50xx) and currently the best drivers are for the Ada Lovelace GPU’s (40xx).
If you plan on running this in a virtual environment you can probably load drivers for that specific VM, but the big advantage of having QNAP drivers is that the 4060 will be seen across applications and in VM’s as well (untried but should work).
Your 4000 will only be available to a specific VM.
Updating my previous post due to new information. From QNAP…
2026/02/13
[New Features]
Added support for NVIDIA RTX 50 series and Blackwell architecture GPU cards.
[Important Note]
NVIDIA GPU Driver 6.2.2 will install NVIDIA GPU driver version 575.64.05 and then select the kernel driver type (open-source or proprietary) depending on what NVIDIA GPU cards are installed on your NAS device.
[Compatibility]
QTS/QuTS hero firmware versions 5.2.9 and later are only compatible with certain versions of NVIDIA GPU Driver 6.2.2 and later. When updating QTS/QuTS hero firmware, it is recommended to update NVIDIA GPU Driver first to avoid the system automatically disabling NVIDIA GPU Driver due to compatibility issues.
So it seems they have added support for Blackwell, you’ll just need to make sure the 4000 pro physically fits inside the case.
I didn’t have time to respond, but yes, I had seen that the Blackwell were supported by the pilots and JasonH’s response was in that direction.
Well, concretely, I don’t have the finances for and my original message was for medium-term reflection (for the day when I would take the plunge).
The 4060 seems to be a compromise, but unless I’m mistaken, the more VRAM there is, the wider the possibilities can be. Especially if I want to do a bit of LLM directly on the NAS
Afterwards, it would be a reinforcement for the transcoding, but the internal processor already allows quite a few things. Except that for RAG, it is mandatory to have a graphics card.
Edit : I think I’ve finally figured out a potential issue: the NAS’s power supply is 1x8-pin + 1x6-pin. The standard RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell requires 2x8-pin connectors.
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