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If my budget is only ~$1000 should I buy a used 3090 or a new 5080? (for AI, I don't care about gaming)
by jacekm 2y ago
If my budget is only ~$1000 should I buy a used 3090 or a new 5080? (for AI, I don't care about gaming)
- washadjeffmad 2y ago3090. Models like flux or wanvideo with fp16 text encoders will push your VRAM usage over 20GB. LLMs with functional context (or workflows with multi-model, not modal, tie in) will all break 16GB. There's no point to performance without context. At its pricepoint, the 5080 is purely a gaming card.
- passwordqwe 2y agoDo you think you can get a 5080 for a 1000? In the Netherland they're going for 1600 euro's minimum, more like 1800. So I would totally get a new 5080 for a 1000 dollars.
- jacekm 2y agoSigh, I knew they were more than $1000 but did not anticipate that much. You are correct, the price seems to go up every time I check.
- zamadatix 2y ago3090, the 24 GB of VRAM will be more relevant than running smaller models even faster on lower capacity card (small models already run fast by nature of being less to copy from memory and compute on).