Nvidia RTX Discussion

Ive got a 5700 XT and honestly cant believe the prices theyre going for

Meesared wrote: »

Ive got a 5700 XT and honestly cant believe the prices theyre going for

Solid card.

Even with the crazy price you could make it all back in a few months of mining while you are not gaming.
Many don't see that the large mining profits will most likely be coming to an end soon(July)

Or maybe people are really that desperate but there hasn't been that many new game released so far this year that really justifies paying so much for an upgrade.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I don't have a link, but I read article that State of New York is planning to Ban crypto mining for 3 years as it asses the environmental ( a ton of wasted electricity).

Could be good n

ews if others go down the road and make it less attractive "investment".

Couple of article about it alright
New York Bill

Brian wrote: »

Where would you be looking to buy those, direct from Nvidia or from a retailer? An A4000 with 16 GB would be handy.

This generation of Quadro cards is being labelled as "RTX A4000" so I expect they'll be bought by miners in the same fashion.

I've seen them announced on the NVidia site, but for now I've only seen the A6000 out in the wild, at...Quadro prices, let's say (whereabouts of 6000 USD).

There are few manufacturers, historically, for these as they usually are "bundled" into pre-built workstations (hence, you'd often find second-hand Quadro cards marked DELL, HP, Lenovo etc. that were "pulls" from faulty workstations), but PNY seems to be one of the few that actively builds and markets professional cards - those can be found on Amazon and other retail stores.

I don't think the A4000/A5000/A6000 will be scooped up by miners - the basic reason being that price/hashrate ratio on nVidia professional cards tends to be horrendous. Right now, the Turing-based Quadro RTX4000 (pretty much an RTX 2070) is widely available AND at MSRP - around 950-1000 Euro.

Quadros and most likely the upcoming RTX AXXXX are set up with extremely conservative clock speeds, especially when it comes to the memory - stability is their main selling point; That's also why while capable, Quadro-series cards tend to be much slower with games than the GeForce counterparts.
Stuff like rendering and AI calculations, especially these leveraging CUDA libraries and cores, tend to be much less sensitive to vRam speed as opposed to core speeds, as well as having much less tolerance for minor instabilities compared, for example, to games.

To give a personal example, at some point I found both my 2070 Super and 1070 crashing out of renders in Blender. The thing drove me insane for weeks - and looking over the Internet, plenty of people were having the same issue with nobody offering a solution. Until I found out what the problem was - I switched them out of "Gaming mode" and into "Standard" from the Gigabyte utility, and BAM - perfect stability during renders.

Both cards could run for hours and hours in games, under 3D Mark or Heaven benchmark with zero issue - but as soon as heavy usage of CUDA was called upon, they'd just cr@p out.

PNY's RTX A4000 is available to preorder from Scan ... https://www.scan.co.uk/products/pny-nvidia-a4000-16gb-gddr6-w-ecc-6144-cuda-192-tensor-192-tflops-sp-374-tflops-rt-1534-tflops-tenso

Scan wont register for VAT here so they wont ship here seemingly

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

They don't anymore, as they've handed Nvidia UK work to SCAN who no longer serve the EU..

Man that sucks, what about the German Nvidia site?

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

No idea, but I doubt they ship outside Germany/Austria.

I doubt it, I tried to buy founders edition cards from the site Nvidia sells through in both Germany and France back in December and they had no shipping option for Ireland.

Its such a pain now getting a graphics card over here

With such high demand for hardware in the UK right now they may not see any value in taking many orders from Ireland. They probably have higher priorities.
Perhaps when some sort of normality returns to the market they may implement a system to deal with VAT to Ireland.

Not sure if this might help someone out.

CEX have a Titan V for €1k, and they offer a two year warranty. With the current state of the market that's not awful.

I think it's similar mining rate to the RTX3080. Gaming wise I think around maybe RTX3070 level? It was a good chunk faster than 1080Ti anyway on release.

https://ie.webuy.com/product-detail?id=sgranvigtxtitv12gb&categoryName=graphics-cards-pci-e&superCatName=computing&title=nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-v-12gb

Just a heads up

When buying a Graphic Card from CEX be careful to inspect it upon receipt. During lockdown I bought a Radeon RX Vega 64 8gb from them, the warranty seal on one of the backplate screws was broken and it obviously had been opened at some point. I immediately took photos of the seal on being broken and emailed them asking if they would take note and if they would still honour the warranty. I know that they won't accept or sell consoles that have had warranty seals broken and if a console is returned with a broken warranty seal they won't accept it as a return.

As it turned out the card was not working 100% so emailed them again I returned it a the following day. They accepted the return this time but who knows what would have happened if I didn't take note of the broken seal.

Other than the pointing out the above I'd personally have no problem using CEX, I trade into them a lot and usually get vouchers and buy from them. The 2 year warranty is good to have

Yeah I've had some extremely negative experiences with CEX as well but at least if something's DOA you can just return it. Especially now that stuff is re-opening, if you buy online you can return to your local store. There is one a 20 minute drive from me so not so bad.

I bought a Vega 64 from them the other day and it appears to work perfect.

Confused11811 wrote: »

Just a heads up

When buying a Graphic Card from CEX be careful to inspect it upon receipt. During lockdown I bought a Radeon RX Vega 64 8gb from them, the warranty seal on one of the backplate screws was broken and it obviously had been opened at some point. I immediately took photos of the seal on being broken and emailed them asking if they would take note and if they would still honour the warranty. I know that they won't accept or sell consoles that have had warranty seals broken and if a console is returned with a broken warranty seal they won't accept it as a return.

As it turned out the card was not working 100% so emailed them again I returned it a the following day. They accepted the return this time but who knows what would have happened if I didn't take note of the broken seal.

Other than the pointing out the above I'd personally have no problem using CEX, I trade into them a lot and usually get vouchers and buy from them. The 2 year warranty is good to have

Those warranty seals on screws are not even legal in Europe if you break them so I wouldn't worry about it.

I have a friend who worked in CEX. They don't even test some of the pc parts.