[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request

[Lynne]

Jun 26, 2021, 01:49 by timo at rothenpieler.org:

> On 26.06.2021 01:28, Lynne wrote:
>
>> Jun 25, 2021, 13:25 by timo at rothenpieler.org:
>>
>>> On 25.06.2021 10:14, Lynne wrote:
>>>
>>>> The prices have dropped a little, but the biggest difference is that
>>>> stuff is *actually* available now.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, now is not a good time to build an entire system.
>>>> Socket AM4's finished, so if I build an AMD system, it'll be obsolete
>>>> within a year or so, and it'll be non-upgradable.
>>>> Intel's Rocket Lake was such a giant slow flop, and its socket is also
>>>> getting obsoleted by Intel once Alder Lake gets released later this year,
>>>> and it doesn't support DDR5 anyway. And again, Rocket Lake was such
>>>> a giant mess.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think waiting for AM5 and DDR5 is worth it at the moment.
>>> You'll be early-adopting a platform, which is always a bit iffy.
>>>
>>
>> I don't mind being an early adopter, and I think I'll be getting
>> that hardware on my own.
>>
>>
>>> Do you really need a 6900XT? Every review I saw of those commented on their horrible price/performance ratio. Similarly overpriced as the RTX3090.
>>>
>>> Would a 6800XT not work fine as well?
>>>
>>
>> I also want to work on neural networks, since it seems to be the direction
>> into which codecs and filters are going, and for that, I'll need lots of RAM and power.
>> And I'd rather not have to update anytime soon.
>> Here, a 6800XT is less than 200 Euros cheaper than a 6900XT, which for a 1600 Euro
>> GPU isn't all that much.
>>
>
> 1600€ for a GPU is just insanity though. The MSRP for that beast is 1000€, which already is of dubious worth.
> 6800XT MSRP is 650€, which is much closer to a fair price point.
> If the GPU price insanity is really coming to an end, I'd expect those to get wider of a gap again as well.
>
Doesn't seem to be, right now the only thing that came to an end was their
overall unavailability, and even that's still sketchy. MSRP matters little since
it never is the actual price, but just a minimum price at launch day.