Get a 13900 or 7950X and 64 gb of ram. You can run llama 30B and 65B, slowly but surely. Play with that before buying a gpu. If you really, really see yourself

Get a 13900 or 7950X and 64 gb of ram. You can run llama 30B and 65B, slowly but surely. Play with that before buying a gpu. If you really, really see yourself getting into this, then go ahead and get a 3090 or 4090. But otherwise get a cheaper nvidia card and wait for things to develop a little more. You can still play with ML and CUDA but you'll have cash left for when 50X0s drop, and that will probably be right around when this stuff will really be getting hot (if the current plateau doesn't hold). Llama is basically an auto-complete right now. We're celebrating baby's first steps. It's not really worth the $600-1000 jump up from cards that can run all current games 4k60.