Just got RTX3060 at 2498.




3050 at that price is just daylight robbery.

Not even a chance for 3050/3060 get to SRP, perhaps 2 or 3 months from now.

Not so soon, their driver is still in infancy.

The GDDR6X is a real heating wire, can easily consume 100W.

5060/Ti 8GB will have hard time with 9060XT 8GB/16GB.
5050? 199 USD please. Looks decent to replace the aged 3050.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 5 2025, 09:25 PM

AMD could just make a 96bit 12GB 9060 GRE at $249 and it performs like a 5060.

That is not a general rule. AMD's design has less dependent on RAM bandwidth and you have already seen it the current 9060/9070. It is achieved through better precomputation pruning and compression.

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If you shift to the LLM scene, larger memory still has the advantage of loading entire network layers into the GPU. Lower bandwidth only causes the inference to run slower, but still way faster than having some of the layers handled by CPU. Well in this scenario, 5060 Ti 16GB is actually quite a lot faster than 9060 XT 16GB with it's GDDR7. Games are just simply having more well-known, opportunistic & human perception-based optimizations than the brute forcing in AI.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 6 2025, 01:52 PM

Nope, it is not about 8GB or 16GB. It is relative comparison of 9060XT vs 5060 Ti.

Consumer card is not for AI bros. They opt for used workstation cards instead for way larger amount of memory. The richer one will too opt for new workstation cards. The issue is NVIDIA's chip allocation strategy on consumer vs workstation since both share the same chip. NVIDIA earns way more from selling workstation cards.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 6 2025, 02:18 PM

12GB will effectively offset that data exchange issue. 4090/5090 is more like NVIDIA prefers to have the chip sold in RTX ADA / Pro series to enterprises than consumer line. There are other used older workstation cards like Quadro RTX6000, RTX8000 cost a lot cheaper than 4090/5090 in terms of GB/$.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 6 2025, 09:14 PM

4090 is still the way to go.

1.1K is with Shopee discount, original price was 1269, but still a nice price nevertheless.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Jun 18 2025, 10:50 AM

5060 will still be bottlenecked by PCI-E 3.0 due to tons of data swapping between RAM/VRAM happening.