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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2920 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025

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Did the price of GPUs themselves go down? Sounds like a better investment.

What do you mean?

I mean: can I buy me a new graphics card on the cheap?

Used 3080s are still around 400 dollars. They're still better than all new cards in that price range, and are the only thing worth buying unless you're going all the way to a 4090 or 5090. If you're screwing around with text generation (or to a point, image generation with the bigger models) then you buy a 3090 (the 4090 cannot do anything the 3090 can't, and the same is also true of the 5090 to an extent, because that task is VRAM limited and if you have to dip into system memory they're all going to be slow).

Today's GPUs are priced more or less fairly given the performance they yield. That's the entire problem with them.

Oh, lol no, prices are still retarded. You might be able to get one of the new Intel or AMD ones if you just want to game though. Intel's new gay orc cards are actually pretty good and quite cheap.

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