Given the plummeting costs of last gen GPUs, I would prefer to run locally than support Amazon, especially given a GPU has multiple uses. Otherwise, 12GB is becoming the low end when it comes to models, hence my initial question on the condition of used 3090s.
I was talking about Lambda Labs not AWS. AWS is prohibitively expensive. Buying GPUs on Ebay isn't that bad. A 3090 is going to run you in the 800-900 range. Compare that to 900 or so hours worth of ML with a card that has 40GB worth of VRAM and you should have your answer.
I bought one used some time ago for benchmarking my workloads and see if it was worth keeping. The card ran fine but extremely hot and power hungry, which is what I expected. No memory issues that I have seen during a week or so of testing, but I did return it because I did not like memory temps staying around 95-100 degrees during sustained workloads, with fan speed cranked up.
Play with reducing the power limit in X1, I set mine at 70%. You might be surprised at how little you notice the difference outside of reduced thermal load since that thing is still a fucking beast of a card.
This is a bad answer, but if you can find one with a waterblock and ABP installed that's usually a good sign it wasn't used for mining because that setup cost nearly $400 extra dollars during the mining craze and I don't think most miners were about that life given the margins they were working with, even if it was absolutely necessary given how miners tune their cards (power limit as low as is feasible, clock speed as low as it goes, big fucking memory overclock). I'm not sure how much that config will actually cost over the standard card given that all those blocks went on sale of 50% off or so right around the time people started dumping their 3090s.
ive one since i wanted it for ai image shit initially. its technically overkill for the games im playing at the moment, however, since i do play some recent titles now and then that utilize this hardware, it was probably worth it. the gay tracing thing is just the bonus to it
Alright. As long as it can keep pace, even if on the low end with recent shit, I can fuck with that. My requirements aren't stressful by any stretch, and I'll be putting in 32 gb of ram if it needs the extra power (all but one build I've done has had 32 standard, found it a good middle ground). The most I might ever do is pick blender back up and play a recent game.
Yeah, when you conveniently ignore the half of the post where I justify that statement.
Nothing was ignored, I just don't agree. It doesn't address when DLSS isn't an option or when more vram is needed. The 3060 is not a 4k card for recent titles.
The 3060 12GB is not an enthusiasts card. It was designed to compete with AMD's midrange at the time, and has a strange memory configuration as a marketing gimmick to do so. Most people who are buying a 3060 are probably looking at either 1080 or 2k monitors running in the 144hz range or locked at 60FPS.
Yes. The post I was replying to was claiming that the 3060 will work fine at 4k for "modern gaming" because of dlss.
Because it will. Yeah it’ll look worse than native 4k, of course if will, but it will still look better than native 1080p, which realistically is the best it can do without the DLSS crutch. It just doesn’t have the shader units for 1440p.
So long as AI and the server industry is booming for Nvidia, they will just not care about the consumer market. Case in point
Which is fair. I just wish they'd finally tell gamers to fuck off (they kind of already do) instead of rubbing everyones noses in it. Then those same people go on to make excuses to cover it.
