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I'm going to be the dissenting voice here. The connector is shoddy, and it's good entertainment value for me personally who can't afford the card. But that be
by dsign 4y ago
I'm going to be the dissenting voice here.
The connector is shoddy, and it's good entertainment value for me personally who can't afford the card.
But that beast of a card, despite all the amps and watts it swallows, is a very affordable tool for computational tinkerers--think people working in their garage in the next molecular simulation software or AI application--not to mention graphical artists and architects. True, you can get more computational power by paying for cloud services, but a cloud workstation with 32 Gigabytes of RAM without any GPU will cost you 1700 USD/mo in AWS, and you will have to connect through a RDP interface that just hurts.
So, back to the connector, I hope Nvidia and third party manufacturers solve it. I will wait to burn the bridges until the day when they decide they won't sell the cards anymore and instead rent them at the same price that Amazon does. We don't need another Adobe.
- Retric 4y agoA fire hazard is a major concern no matter what the card can or can’t do. Anyway, for home tinkering the 4090 is generally a minor improvement over a 4080 or even vastly cheaper cards. More is better, but not always by very much. That said, the real value of cloud services is you can sometimes get more done with 2TB of RAM for 4 hours than you can with 32GB of RAM for 4 months. All without the need to have that much computing power anywhere near you.
- dsign 4y ago> That said, the real value of cloud services is you can sometimes get more done with 2TB of RAM for 4 hours than you can with 32GB of RAM for 4 months. All without the need to have that much computing power anywhere near you. I know that. Alas, I can't get more programming done with 2TB of RAM in 4 hours than I can get with 32GB in three years. Human limitations.