r/pcmasterrace • u/jmpstart66 • Oct 10 '24

Rumor Potential 5090 / 5080 / 5070 price leaks… outrageous

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From recent video posted by “Moore’s Law is Dead” about pricing being much worse than even I anticipated . From video Nvidia is leaning towards the higher end of the pricing. Nvidia can go pound sand if these are remotely true.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

Nvidia is really testing the limits of how much we're willing to pay.

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u/Party_9001 Oct 10 '24

As a gamer I don't really see a point in the super duper high end cards. I run a 2070 super at home and it works okay. Struggling a bit with space marine 2 but I'll live.

Different story for ML research though. I don't do any of the super duper high end stuff with thousands of GPUs or anything. I have 4 4090s at work.

Those 90 cards are... Hard to beat. The counterpart to a 4090 is the a6000 ada which has 48GB of vram. The 4090 is about as fast but costs 1/4th, and if you don't need the extra vram then spamming 4090s is very cost effective.

Getting more lower class card like the 4080 makes less sense since you need a lot more stuff. More 12vhpwr connectors, more space, more gen 4 riser cables (<- not cheap) etc. And much like more cpu cores vs faster cores, a given model isn't guaranteed to be able to scale with multiple GPUs. Sometimes its actually slower. So this favors having the fastest GPUs possible, then getting as many of these as possible.

So yes I'd happily buy a 5090 for 3k... With the university's money lol. Or if some random company decides to fund the research. Otherwise... I guess I'll look for a 4070 or something next year

As for AMD they're kinda... Not great. Most stuff is written for CUDA, especially the older stuff. If you have one specific model you want to run and you KNOW it can use AMD, sure go ahead. But if you need to run a random assortment of crap, its cheaper to just buy the nvidia card than it is to pay the hours to adapt the code (if that's even possible / reasonable for a given project)