As a longtime user of both brands and relatively 50/50 on ownership, yup.
You'd really say so? Looking at a reputable UK seller for over £100-200 less than the price of a 4080, you can get a Radeon 7900XTX and that's a powerful card with a lot of long-lasting potential.
It depends how much you value dlss. I don't care for it even with my rtx 4k cards.
I had my work's "clean desk" policy clarified and they are adamant that I pull all other computers out of the room during work hours. I don't yet know how they will enforce that with an iMac's webcam, but I think I should plan for having to take my computer out. So most likely a laptop, but maybe a handheld PC will work if they're powerful enough to handle a 1080p screen.
I don't see why the 4080 would be any less long-lasting than the 7900 XTX. By the time you need 24 GB of VRAM for games, the memory bottlenecks on the 7900 XTX are going to mean the performance is shit anyway. GDDR7 is already on the horizon, after all.
Say what, now? I am intrigued. Is this some sort of working from home gig you have and you're required to have a provided computer be the only computer physically in the room?
Pretty much. I'm working for Teleperformance doing customer support for AppleCare and they provide an iMac M1 that's locked down tighter then a nun's knickers and they put great emphasis on not having anything that can record customer data.
Oh, I can actually see the positive intent in that. It seems to me that it's useless and only affects people who are already honest and it's probably a token legal effort, but... I approve of the goals.
My system will be a Windows machine as I do still need the OS for certain things - plus I use the Microsoft cloud services like onedrive and I don't intend to switch. I don't game as much as I used to but I'd like to be able to play games i enjoy - very few are the super resource intensive AAA games so i don't need a super powerful system.
Depends on what you mean by “quicker”. PCIe 4 and 5 SSDs will be a noticeable but not huge upgrade in terms of loading single large files, for example a video game, but for loading many small files, for example like booting the operating system, you probably won’t notice any difference. PCIe3x2 Optane still wins massively in latency over PCIe5 flash drives, even though on paper the latter are an order of magnitude quicker, simply because flash kind of sucks at random read/write no matter the generation it’s transferring data over.
most games don't even fully utilize SATA SSDs because the CPU can't keep up with the decompression/decrypting of the game files
Yep. Games are hardly the same as moving a singular large file. Lots of people splashing out for gen 4/5 drives for just playing games when it really doesn't matter.
In my experience, Intel Linux support has been as good, if not better, than AMD, at least for general desktop usage.
It's not really for games. It's for VMs and also AI models. So there are some large files involved, e.g. everytime I switch to a different Stable Diffusion checkpoint. But like you say, latency is also key. A review of a Seagate Firecuda NVMe drive looked quite good. I'm reluctant to buy an Optane drive because even though they're still available they're a dead technology. L1 Techs did a video the other week on a new type of drive that seemed to have very low latency. In fact, I think you might have linked it here! But that was more focused on the enterprise.
I'm sure you can play around with caching on Linux. With ZFS for example I had my memory filled with cache while playing around with AI models.
are you using A1111? it already has a setting for that
