5090 worth it?

[malachi]

Did you see gamer nexus visiting China to turn a 4090 into 48gb

Heard about, they are a better person than me for doing that! Lol

 

[Farore]

I wish I'd got 128GB. I'm running AI on my PC and it's frequently bottlenecking on 64GB. I really want to buy a 5090 too, but the prices are so disgusting. I's struggling with the prices. I just don't want to spend that sort of money on a card. What happens if you drop it?

Does RAM have an effect on local AI? I wasn't aware!

 

[djay]

That’s the key point that many miss. Most people aren’t just starting fresh on 5090’s. They’re using their previous high end cards to fund most of the upgrade.

Some people paid only a few hundred to upgrade.

I’m curious to see what the landscape will look like when the 6090 launches in terms of pricing, and what sort of money 5090’s will fetch.

The way things are going if you bought a 5090 before the price increases you’ll likely get all your money back when it comes to selling. My cards gone up by £1200 compared to what I paid.

I’m sure there was a guy on here that sold his 4090 for more than he paid for it 3 years ago. So he gamed for “free”…

Not quite as successful as this but I bought my 4090FE for £1699, then 3 years later sold it for £1600.
Managed to get a Palit 5090 for around £2100 which is now retailing at OCUK for £2900!

Crazy prices, however the amount I use my PC for gaming I do get my monies worth!

 

[BeelzebubUK]

I did the same. I had an ASUS TUF 4090. Bought a 5090FE for £1800 and sold the 4090 for £1750. I just couldn't pass up that opportunity

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Does RAM have an effect on local AI? I wasn't aware!

It does have an appreciable difference, but it does depend largely on the models you're using.

One AI using one model could eat through the 96GB on that RTX6000 Pro card and 256GB system RAM. Another model for the same local AI can sit fine with an RTX3060 12GB and a low amount of system RAM. Whilst another can sit in the same setups but with more system RAM. etc.

Usually the differences aren't as big as you'd like (especially for the cost, but especially in the current RAM cost) vs a GPU with lots of VRAM, but the moment you're doing anything that can't fit entirely in the VRAM, you need fast system RAM to swap in and out of. It's a lot faster to swap between VRAM and system RAM after everything you need has been loaded once from local storage to RAM. On the AM5 system, you're looking at 55GB(ytes)/s with 4800MT speeds with however much system RAM you can get running at that speed. Whilst the fastest NVME is just going to at best hit 17GB(yte)/s and once cache is out, it'll be competeing with SATA SSD Levels of speed, you won't be doing anything on AI any time soon once you run out of the faster stuff (VRAM and System RAM).

 

[chaparral]

Nobody seems to have mentioned the main benefit of having a 5090 yet which is you get to put it in your signature so everyone on the forum knows how cool you are.

Am even cooler

 

[Ravenger]

I'd say the 5090 is only worth it if you are running super high resolutions, especially VR.
The 5090 is a significant performance increase in VR over my 4090. For my other gaming on 1440p it's overkill.

 

[sgoaty]

If I was a betting man I’d be buying a 5090 now as suspect next month they’ll cost even more.

I remember paying £1800 for my zotac and thinking this is such a silly thing to do for my use case but hopefully I don't lose too much when I come to sell. Turns out it was one of my smarter financial decisions!

 

[sgoaty]

I'm wondering this also, having upgraded to a 5k2k display recently I was going to grab a 5080 (upgrade from 3080) but now I'm thinking a 5090 might be the better choice at that resolution, I'm thinking to go with Zotac Solid brand, £1050 for a 5080 or £2,180 for a 5090?

I hope you pulled the trigger looking at current prices!

 

[Michael Durrant]

I hope you pulled the trigger looking at current prices!

Ive had my 5090 over a week now and still in the box while decorating gaming room