Need a new Graphics card to replace Nvidia NVS 300 on HP Z620

[NEKSoccer]

I am trying to update my OS to Ubuntu 24.04.2 and the screen is acting funny. I looked up the requirements and it said that I need a 3D Acceleration capable GPU with at least 256 MB.

The current graphics card is a NVidia NVS 300 (actually, the machine has two of them). I am doing this on an HP Z620 workstation. All the other requirements look okay (i.e. CPU, RAM, etc.).

I would like to know what GPU you would recommend to replace it. That is, it would have the 3D acceleration capability. Should I be contacting NVidia for this?

Please let me know. Thanks.

[DGroves]

the nvidia nvs 300 is a very old slow obsolete video card by todays standards

if you don't game then any newer modern card from AMD or nvidia (no intel as system has no resizable bar support)

the nvidia 1050 or 1060 cards will work fine  for AMD cards, like the midrange 5700xt.... Open source drivers are included by default in Ubuntu.`

the HP quickspecs shows only older cards (and cpu's) that HP had tested they are now mostly out of date but useful to see what wattage/power requirements the cards used when comparing to newer cards

https://www.itcreations.com/user-manuals/z620/hp-z620-workstation-quickspecs.pdf

you might want to read this thread

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Replacement-Graphi...

• NVIDIA requires installing proprietary drivers for full functionality.
• Ubuntu has an ubuntu-drivers program for automatically selecting and installing the most compatible proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver for your computer's NVIDIA graphics card with sudo ubuntu-drivers install && sudo reboot
• Ubuntu has a built-in Nouveau open source graphics driver that offers fallback capability when installed alongside the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.
• NVIDIA drivers from then official Ubuntu repositories are frequently updated and generally stable.
• NVIDIA drivers may offer better performance for specific tasks that depend on the CUDA parallel computing platform and programming model created by NVIDIA.