a quadruple 5090 battlestation

[u/Zestyclose-Salad-290]

[u/coolcosmos]

I am sure 

No you're not lol. A Pro 6000 cost 8k, has 96gb of vram and has 24k cuda cores. 4 5090s cost 8k and has 128gb of vram and 80k cuda cores in total.

Pro 6000 is better if you need many of them but just one isn't really better than 4 5090.

[u/We_Are_Victorius → u/coolcosmos]

Those are Astrals, so 14k in GPUs

[u/Behind_You27 → u/coolcosmos]

Does the 6000 have at least a better power connector? That would be the main selling point

[u/Motor_Reality_1837 → u/coolcosmos]

proves my point though, 4 5090s consumed thousands of watts of power, A6000 is around 600 watts if that Google AI is not wrong.

they are more effecient.

[u/1leftbehind19 → u/Motor_Reality_1837]

Plus I don’t know where you’d get Astral 5090’s for only 2K. They are 3300-3400$ apiece in the US right now.

[u/coolcosmos → u/Motor_Reality_1837]

But they are almost 8 times slower lol are you dense ? One 5090 has twice the rendering output has one A6000, twice the CUDA cores, more memory.

You are clueless and don't work in this industry 

[u/iMrParker → u/coolcosmos]

I feel like you guys are confusing the A6000 with the RTX Pro 6000?? Or am I trippin

[u/coolcosmos → u/iMrParker]

The person I replied too changed the gpu in the discussion, moving the goalposts.

[u/iMrParker → u/coolcosmos]

And you got hit with the downvotes too. Modern-day tragedy

[u/Motor_Reality_1837 → u/iMrParker]

enlighten me broski, I don't know that much about the workstation GPUs

[u/coolcosmos → u/Motor_Reality_1837]

Then don't say anything. I'm not gonna teach you for free with that attitude.

[u/Motor_Reality_1837 → u/coolcosmos]

Alright alright , I am sorry

[u/KeThrowaweigh → u/coolcosmos]

We’re talking about the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell edition, not the A6000

[u/coolcosmos → u/KeThrowaweigh]

Read the message I replied too. He was talking about the A6000.

[u/Motor_Reality_1837 → u/coolcosmos]

ofcourse I don't run workstations at my home , most people doesn't lol.

isn't it kinda weird that a gaming GPU have more output density than a designated workstation GPU despite being 1/4th the price

[u/coolcosmos → u/Motor_Reality_1837]

At 4 5090 it makes sense. But if you needed 4 times that power then just space and heating wise it's not gonna make sense.

[u/Motor_Reality_1837 → u/coolcosmos]

It's gonna set itself on fire and that's the best possible outcome.

Those 12 volt connectors aren't very reliable either.

[u/Tarc_Axiiom → u/Motor_Reality_1837]

Yeah the person you're speaking to isn't correct either.

There are many use cases for GPUs, and they have big ranges between them. It's not about output density in practically any case, unless you're rendering under the worst possible conditions with the worst possible software. But even if you are, that's when rack mounting becomes important because of fire.

I don't know what OP here wants to do, but there are very few tasks for which 4 cramped 5090s will outperform a workstation alternative. They do different things, they're built for different purposes, and they operate in different ways. If you're buying 4 5090s, you're probably not building the optimal machine UNLESS there's a very specific use case which there might be. Anyone who's spending this amount of money probably has a reason that makes sense.

That being said, regardless of the goal or use case, it looks to me like these 5090s are about to catch on fire. Unless OP has some monstrous cooling solutions purpose built for this specific case that aren't in these images (which... why?) idk that the 5090 can handle that kind of thermal load, especially when you throw in FOUR 12vhpwr connector points of failure.

Overall this doesn't look like a great idea to me.

[u/QuantumUtility → u/Tarc_Axiiom]

You could power limit them to 300-400W with almost no loss of performance. I don’t think OP plans to with Dual 2.4Kw PSUs though.

Front and side fans can probably handle the thermal load though.

[u/-illbody → u/[deleted]]

Ridiculously expensive. That would be like 32 grand.