[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request

[Timo Rothenpieler]

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.

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