

They can technically but you will run into all sorts of problems. A Server is usually on all the time while a general purpose computer only periodically. There are two routes I see how you might get this to work:
- If you use more of the general purpose PC: Just run a Type 2 hypervisor like virtualbox on your normal desktop OS and run all your server stuff in there. You can also run Proxmox inside virtualbox. This is called nested virtualization.
- If you prefer to learn more virtualization: Run Proxmox, then run your preferred Desktop OS as a virtual machine inside Proxmox and pass through your GPU, mouse and Keyboard. This is called PCI/USB passthrough
Both approaches take a lot of ram (I recommend at least 16 GB).
Hope this helps :)





Alright, lets compare it to another GPU.
According to this source , the RTX 4070 costs about 500$ and does 466 TOPS of INT8
I dont know if TOPS is a good measurement tho (I dont have any experience with AI benchmarking)