Best GPU for 3D work / Cuda / Performance / Value for money?

[PaulW]

Hi All,

With Graphics card availability and prices being what they are, i am thinking of buying a stop gap card for the time being. i do a lot of 3D work / game dev, its my job so i have to go Nvidia.

Atm i can't quite stomach GPU prices, i am currently running a SFF AM4 system with a Gigabyte AMD B550 AORUS B550I PRO AX mobo. + i have a work cast off GTX 1080 FE ( which actually runs great)

so what is the best card to get atm that will give me the best performance vs Value for 3D work, UE5 and games. Obviously more CUDA the better. (second hand is also an option)

i wanted a RTX 5080, and to pair that with a new AM5 system. but when the prices and specs were announced i shelved it. i'll wait to get a new system till the real 5080 24 gig one is released and Nvidia stop treating us like mugs! (flying pigs)

Anyway i'd love to hear some options. budget wise £400- £500 max.

Thanks

P

 

[Tetras]

I'm not aware of any workstation alternatives, but for the geforce cards, I think it'd have to be a 3090 (if you could get one for £500 ).

If the VRAM doesn't matter, then you'd have more options.

 

[Tythus]

Hi All,

With Graphics card availability and prices being what they are, i am thinking of buying a stop gap card for the time being. i do a lot of 3D work / game dev, its my job so i have to go Nvidia.

Atm i can't quite stomach GPU prices, i am currently running a SFF AM4 system with a Gigabyte AMD B550 AORUS B550I PRO AX mobo. + i have a work cast off GTX 1080 FE ( which actually runs great)

so what is the best card to get atm that will give me the best performance vs Value for 3D work, UE5 and games. Obviously more CUDA the better. (second hand is also an option)

i wanted a RTX 5080, and to pair that with a new AM5 system. but when the prices and specs were announced i shelved it. i'll wait to get a new system till the real 5080 24 gig one is released and Nvidia stop treating us like mugs! (flying pigs)

Anyway i'd love to hear some options. budget wise £400- £500 max.

Thanks

P

you can get like a 3080ti/4070ti used for that sort of money 400-500 but that's all folks or a 5070 for 510 right now on ocuk...perfromance wise they are all very close to each other all have 12gb vram

 

[varkanoid]

+1 for a 2nd hand 3090

 

[Tythus]

+1 for a 2nd hand 3090

I just don't think you could get them for £500 most I've seen are more like £600

 

[Poneros]

The real answer is you have to buy what's going to get the job done. You'll know your performance/memory demands better than us, so on a budget it's either 4060 Ti 16 GB for £480ish (or wait 3 weeks for 5060 Ti 16 GB) or 5070 Ti (£799). It's bizarre to wait for years for whatever meagre "discount" might happen, because rest assured there won't be big cuts, just look at node prices, they only go up -> GPU prices stay high (or go higher), and particularly for work... the opportunity cost of time is insane, especially since we're not talking about thousands of £. Don't wait for a 5080 24GB you don't even know will launch, and that's likely to easily sell for £1500+ if it did launch (real prices), the demand on the ML side is insane.

I'm not aware of any workstation alternatives, but for the geforce cards, I think it'd have to be a 3090 (if you could get one for £500 ).

If the VRAM doesn't matter, then you'd have more options.

+1 for a 2nd hand 3090

3090s are actually getting snapped left and right for ML, prices on it keep going up. Last consumer x90 GPU with Nvlink.

 

[PaulW]

had a quick look at 2nd hand 3090s and £650 - £700 at that price i'd probably be better off spending £200 more and getting a 5070 ti, the cuda core are almost the same. yep lose the Vram but it does have newer DP connectors.

Prices are still bonkers.