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Last year I built one for slightly over $2k with a 5950x, 128GB ram, 1TB ssd and a RTX 3080 graphics card. That would get you in the ballpark.
by nightski 5y ago
Last year I built one for slightly over $2k with a 5950x, 128GB ram, 1TB ssd and a RTX 3080 graphics card. That would get you in the ballpark.
- fastball 5y agoObviously we need to wait for people to get their hands on the Ultra and do some real benchmarks, but if we take Apple's claims at face value (which seems reasonable since the original M1 held up well to real-world benchmarks), then: M1 Ultra has 90% better performance than the "fastest 16-core PC desktop chip available", which is probably the 5950X. M1 Ultra has better performance than the "highest end discrete GPU available" (probably the Radeon RX 6900 XT?) while using 1/3 the power. So I'm not exactly sure I'd call your build same ballpark, and I also can't imagine it was only slightly over $2k given that the CPU[1] and GPU[2] you specified alone cost $2200 on a good day... [1] https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/5450881400/sg https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/5450881400/sg [2] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rtx+3080 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rtx+3080
- nightski 5y agoI snagged the GPU for $700 (or MSRP) on launch. That is the hardest part to obtain right now. 5950X goes on sale - it's at best buy for $599 right now. That left about $1000 for the rest of the build (Motherboard, RAM, SSD & Case) based on my budget of $2200 which honestly is more than you need. The 3080 beats the Ultra in perf for games/ml. The 5950x is not 90% slower, but it is slower. Like I said, it's not going to be equal to the $4000 M1 Ultra. But it's in the ballpark (and does beat it in certain use cases such as games/ml). The thing is these are 2 year old parts at this point. If we see 4x series from nvidia and/or Zen 4 this year all this could change dramatically.