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It’s like cyberpunk, that game got ripped for optimization. Been the benchmark standard for a long ass time now. Someone had to take the crown 🤷♂️ tbh I beat BL4 on a 4060 laptop and enjoyed every minute of it. I didn’t have crazy stuttering or anything like that so idk maybe just lucky
Oh wow that’s actually impressive, they used boundary masking to cut back to the beginning of the video. A surprising amount of work went into making that GIF then.
Thing is though, 5090s don't have nvlink and games aren't even developed to use multiple GPUs anymore these days. So even if he could link them, he's not gaming on them.
Battlestation is usually a gamer term since we don't do work at our desktop pc's. That's where OP seeded confusion.
4x5090 gpus isn't a gaming pc. It's probably a render box making this a very diligent work station.
For the money these GPUs are king at rendering. As long as you're not rendering very Vram intensive jobs these are brilliant. And if you need more short term storage you can always use CPU rendering with the threadripper and 128GB+ ram. I used to build these setups for our renderfarm (CGI/commercials).
No Xeon with pro gpu setup can compete at 35% of the price.
For now. Pro cards are coming down in price with each gen and consumer CPU’s largely negate the need to run a Xeon or similar. RISC-V based PC’s are also getting way better support as they’re becoming out of the box products. If your software has a Linux native package, the Milk-v Titan can combine all 8 cores to function (in middleware) as a 12ghz single core. The future of low-cost, high yield hardware is close.
I can't see a combination of CPU and GPU setup with this much raw render power for anywhere near the price. Risc-V is not a great option for a render node in a farm. You need to be able to run the same software and plugins natively (Davinci resolve, Blender etc etc) and preferably not in a VM, because of the overhead.
In that sense I can't possibly go around threadripper based systems for our nodes. For customers that need more ram they can use our threadrippers and 256GB ECC nodes. Combine that with either RTX pro or top end consumer.. and you have yourself a fantastic node for 20k a piece
no... which means 4x5090 wont be 128gb vram, it is just 4x32gb meaning that when rendering on 4 GPUs your scene has to fully fit into the vram of each gpu
A lot of 3d rendering tools like blender and keyshot will split renders between cards or systems. So when you have one big scene it will slice it into pieces render rack one on a different card or system and reassemble. It will do the same with animations, sending each frame to a separate card or server.
Not in a way that stacks vram. If you have 4 gpu's you can render the 1 scene which will cap memory at the lowest card or you can run 4 instances of blender and render different frames but that means 4 times the same memory loaded on each card.
Had the same thought. Assuming 600W for each card, 200W CPU, and a 90% efficient power supply, this would use almost 2900W and draw over 24 amps on a 120V circuit.
Except for drier and HVAC circuits, most house wiring couldn’t actually run this full blast without tripping a breaker….and if you were an idiot and swapped the breaker without upgrading the wiring, you are going to have the hottest house on the block….cuz fire.
There is a reason space heaters top out at 1500W in the US.
A lot of places have 240V power though. 3kW is a lot, but very much possible with standard wiring in a modern home. (Not necessarily old houses, they tend to have scary wiring practices)
Yeah, in Brazil it is common for people to have electrical showers, they usually have between 5000W, you can find 127V ones, but the normal is 220V. But there is a catch, the shower must have a dedicated electrical circuit.
I’m so confused as to what case would support this kind of setup… how do you plug in your displays..? How do you keep this cool enough to even play anything longer than a few minutes?
Plus I thought you can’t even use multiple GPU’s anymore since SLI isn’t a thing anymore at least for gaming. Wouldn’t you just be limited to one GPU, making the rest redundant… I just, wow.
I know for things outside of gaming you’d be able to utilize something like this, but unless you’re rendering the damn human genome and making the first digital human, I can’t see what legitimate use this PC would have.
All these burned connectors on this “new standard”, and we’re still dangling cables off to the side instead of plugging them in the back? What even is the point???
Remember SLI? Those were crazy times. Never actually had an SLI/Crossfire setup, but it always seemed so cool (though, i also imagine it came with a lot of troubleshooting for games that didn't support it well)
There were diminishing returns for each additional card too. The second card might get you that 60% boost, but a third card would get you significantly less than that, and the 4th card, even less!
Well, these are ASUS Astral cards, so they are closer to $3.5K rather than $2.5-2k for most models; one RTX Pro 6000 is about 8.5K. That setup is about $14k of cards for 128GB, and the RTX Pro 6000 would have been 192GB for $13K.
There's a slight difference in memory clock with the Astrals being higher, which I doubt compensates for ECC VRAM and 1.5x the memory.
Those figures are being generous and assuming a US buyer, and OP is likely not an American.
If I'm looking at the numbers correctly though, the 5090 has 680 tensor cores each, whereas the 6000 Pro has 782. If 128GB vram is enough for their application, splitting an AI model up between 4 gpus with 3.5x the tensor cores, that sucker it going to be blazing fast. Plus, the 5090 actually has a higher benchmark than the 6000 Pro, so if they do plan to do some gaming, they may get better performance out of the one card that the games can use.
Yep you got it. Not everyone is doing vram limited work. I've built a 4x5090 build and it beats the absolute crap out of a 4x6000 build for the application it was made for, at a fraction of the price.
Glad to see another local AI enthusiast here to spit facts.
Personally, I'm still working my way up the build chain, but I'm currently running two 5060 Ti 16GB cards and am very satisfied at what I can run and how fast the responses are with just 32GB (which, since it's on two 5060s, only cost me about $850).
I am (currently) only doing LLM inference for home assistant TTS and coding tasks though, eventually I'll be turning my attention to things like RTSP monitoring with OCV, I'll probably start hitting my walls with that.
Workstation GPUs don't require another type of cooling, they have built-in fans like the cards we plebs use. The Server GPUs are certainly different, they only have the heatsink and no fan
Yes. Workstation cards are for the most part just regular consumer die with more vram maybe ecc etc. Example, 3090 and A6000 use the same die but the A6000 has twice the ram and it’s ecc (3080 also does but with some units disabled)
I feel like people just realized with how much shorts YouTuber are mediatizing the 6000 ada as this better than 5090 10K gpu when really this has been a thing for decades.
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u/pppjuracDell Poweredge T640, 256GB RAM, RTX 3080, WienerSchnitzelLand11h ago
Also server/workstation cards come with manufacturer guarantee saying:
"We guarantee our GPU inside (Dell/HP WS) will work 24/7 under full load without single problem with your choice of CAD/CAM/CAE from Autodesk."
2400W power supply here should pull max 20A so yeah I think you'd need to make sure that this puppy is on a 20A breaker if you're ever gonna crank those gpus!
Let's be honest, if the dude has the disposable cash to throw 4x 5090's, he's likely just gonna keep adding to the home lab he's on the way to making anyways.
Might as well just head it off now and give room for growth.
Thinking the same thing. Dudes gonna just have a new breaker installed and the run it balls to the wall in the basement of their mom's 1970s built aluminum wiring house.
Around 3 kW. 15 amp breaker shouldn't trip if its the only high power device. But if we are talking Americans with 120V then it would be a problem yeah.
It's because Americans adopted electricity earlier than most countries. So a worse standard was standardized and it was too late to change it because it was already heavily in use.
Computer, generate lawn chair and a 40ft tall daisy ridley. Give her extreme motherly instincts and a full bladder. Disable safety protocols and run program
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