Despite not having an iGPU, the AMD Ryzen CPU I chose is perfectly capable of booting in a headless system. I should know because I ran in to this issue myself when I built my Unraid machine using an AMD Ryzen processor and an MSI B450M MORTAR motherboard. Before you hit the purchase button on your dream Unraid rig, you must check the manuals or search for reports on whether your combination of hardware will be able to boot with the absence of a GPU. Your motherboard or CPU might thoughĮven if Unraid doesn’t need a GPU, your motherboard or CPU might. All you have to do is figure out the machine’s IP using your router and nothing more. Unraid is managed using a web dashboard, and that dashboard can be accessed from any browser, on any computer (or even a phone or tablet). Such a setup, one with no video output, is called a headless Unraid system. You can get started with Unraid without having ever to attach a monitor to the machine itself.
Unraid doesn’t even need an integrated GPU (iGPU), such as those present on many Intel processors (Intel Xe, Intel UHD, and Iris Plus Graphics) or on a select number of AMD processors (AMD Accelerated Processing Units). To answer the question asked in the title of this article: No, Unraid does not need a GPU. But does Unraid even need a graphics card (GPU)? And if not, why do so many users seemingly not just have any GPU in their Unraid machine, but a high-end and power hungry model? Those are just a few of the questions this article will answer.
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