Have you bought your RTX 5090/5080 yet?
4 Feb 2025 17:25:51 UTC
Topic 232050
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1. How is the availability for you?
2. Is it because of the 40x0 series, even 30x0 and to a lesser extent 20x0, lying around in warehouses?
3. Will the best solution be to buy for E@H, BOINC: 7900 XTX, Radeon Pro VII or other interesting-lesser known offers?
StephieDolores wrote: 1. How
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For me, I wouldn't even consider a 5090/5080 series GPU with all of the hoopla and comparisons to the former 40xx series GPUs. I would definitely consider buying a 5070 Ti version though. It is much more inline with what I consider a 50xx series GPU should be... without all of the 'gimmickry', plus it's more reasonably priced too.
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#1 Don't care.#2 It has
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#1 Don't care.
#2 It has to be competitive with rtx 3080 ti prices before I would consider it.
#3 It depends on how many pcie slots you have available and/or want to run.
Titan V's are both cheaper than many higher end cards, and use a lot less electricity. If you can manage to get two running you can probably make it on to the Top 50.
Rtx 3080 ti's let you get onto the Top 50 with a single GPU.
rtx 2070 let you get onto the Top 50 with 3 maybe even 2.
So compare current costs for any rtx xxxx series and take a look how they are performing in the Top 50?
I believe there are two Radeon VII systems running 2 gpus in the Top 50.
One user got very decent RAC's out of a single Radeon VII by running it without CPU tasks, on a fast CPU back when O3SA was running two long CPU processing gaps that slowed the total time a GPU task took to run. He may have been running up to 6-7 tasks.
#1 again. IF you are already buying a rtx 5000 series for another over-riding reason, and then also running e@h GPU tasks on it. It might make sense. Ditto rtx 4000 series.
I am not actually in the market at all due to budgetary constraints.
There are bound to be people here who are.
HTH.
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