[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request

[Lynne]

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.


> Or maybe a combination of two smaller cards, like one RTX3070 and one 6700XT, so you can test against both targets? Which would combined still be cheaper than a single 6900XT.
>

Not buying Nvidia unless its free, and happily sits gathering dust 99% of the time
in a different system in another room that serves no other purpose to me but to
test Nvidia cards. It just so happens they're not free, they're not happy sitting gathering
dust because you constantly have to update drivers, I'm running out of power
outlets, and I'm not very sure it'll even run fine without a monitor, which I don't have.