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Consider AMD. If you don't need NVIDIA specific features (e.g. ray tracing performance, CUDA), you can get the same level of performance [0] offered by a 3070
by maltalex 4y ago
Consider AMD.
If you don't need NVIDIA specific features (e.g. ray tracing performance, CUDA), you can get the same level of performance [0] offered by a 3070 for around 350$-450$ in the form of an RX 6700/RX 6750 XT [1][2]. You also get more VRAM with these cards - 12GB instead of the 8GB of the 3070.
[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
[1]: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6700+xt&Order=1&N=4841%20100007709&isdeptsrh=1 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6700+xt&Order=1&N=4841%2010000...
[2]: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6750+xt&Order=1&N=100007709&isdeptsrh=1 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6750+xt&Order=1&N=100007709&is...
- kyriakos 4y agofor just gaming AMD is the way to go if you are on a tight budget. they had driver issues which are now fixed so they offer both good performance and price. too bad all ML stuff require CUDA :(
- causi 4y agoSadly I do much of my gaming over Moonlight which is Nvidia-exclusive and beats the pants off Steam Link. Also I find the AMD naming conventions somewhat confusing and I can never judge the relative performance of an AMD card by its model number.
- lhl 4y agoI'm a huge Moonlight fan so this is an issue for me as well, but just an FYI, a lot of people have good luck with Sunshine https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine - which is a Moonlight compatible host that uses ffmpeg (and works w/ AMD cards). I'm in the market for an upgrade and will wait until Nov 3 to see what RDNA3 brings to see if it's worth paying for a new card vs last-gen used card pricing.
- causi 4y agoHow does the latency compare to Moonlight? I'm lag-sensitive to the point GeForce Now is immediately nauseating in first-person games.
- maltalex 4y ago> Also I find the AMD naming conventions somewhat confusing and I can never judge the relative performance of an AMD card by its model number It's really quite simple and very similar to NVIDIA's naming scheme. First digit is the generation (currently 6XXX) Second digit is the relative performance (64XX < 65XX < 66XX < 67XX < 68XX < 69XX) "XT" suffix - similar to NVidia's "Super" designation. Non-Zero third digit is like Nvidia's "Ti" designation: 6600 < 6600 XT < 6650 XT.
- eikenberry 4y agoI've used Steam's remote play/streaming setup for years without issue. What makes Moonlight better?
- Liquix 4y agoAMD is also the way to go for non-Windows users. There are hopes that NVIDIA drivers will become usable in wake of the wake of Lapsus$ hijinx, but for now AMD cards work so much better with GNU/Linux
- jacooper 4y agoThe lapsus hack doesn't matter, no body is going to Read trade secret code. What actually matters is the announcement of an open source kernel driver, similar to how AMD does it, which will allow for third party drivers like Mesa to exist, instead of manually reverse engineering everything. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/ https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...
- gpm 4y agoThe nvidia drivers work great on linux in my experience, so long as you stay away from wayland.
- Semaphor 4y agoRecently bought a RX 6600 for (€/$ 285), very happy besides not being able to (easily at least) try out stable fusion ;)
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoYou may be able to by building PyTorch with ROCm bindings.
- Semaphor 4y agoThat’s what I meant with "easily" ;) With the effort for it, the 6600 apparently only being borderline able to run it, and my general hate for everything python related, I’d rather not try it.