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sc94597 5 hours ago
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JEMC said:
sc94597 said:

Hoping next week's B&H launch has enough 5090 stock for me to snag one. 

I currently connect a 4090 (over oculink) and 4080 (over USB 4) to my laptop for about 40GB of VRAM that I use for DL/RL/ML workloads. 

Would love to switch out the 4080 with a 5090, go from 40GB to 56GB of VRAM, and then put the 4080 in my main gaming PC (like to split work device from gaming device so that I don't get distracted while working.) 

**pics**

Even the RTX 4080 is overkill for gaming, imo. 

How come you went with a 4080? A 3090 also has 24GB of VRAM like the 4090, and I'd guess that it would be cheaper to get one of those second hand than a 4080.

But well, with the Lunar New Year causing most of assembly plants to stop in China for a month, it looks like you Cyran and Jizz/s friend will have a hard time getting one soon.

I got the 4080 as a Christmas gift from my partner in December 2022 when used RTX 3090's were still over-priced from the crypto mining wave ($850-$950 used, $1100 new) and the 4090 wasn't in stock regularly. My partner found a 4080 in stock at MSRP. Was upgrading from a 3080ti. So the upgrade was pretty substantial. Bought the 4090 last year when I needed more VRAM to test local LLMs for a project I was doing for work. 

Could've probably sold the 4080 and bought a 3090 (or even another 4090), but didn't feel like going through the bother.

If the GPUs were in stock, I would've probably just had got a 4090 in December 2022 and then maybe a used 3090 later on when the prices came down to $700ish. 

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