I’m not an economist but I don’t think that’s how that works.
You don’t need this.
Do you really? This bugger is loud as fuck and eats the sun for breakfast, energy-wise. In hind sight, a 5080 would’ve done equally fine minus some fps.
A bit misandrist but sure.
RX 9060 XT gang
I was going to grab a 9070 XT, but I also wanted to start mainly using a local LLM instead of contributing to data center use, so I snagged a used 7900 XTX for $750 off eBay for the greater VRAM capacity. Works like a charm, and the local Qwen model is performing great. Totally worth it. It’s my first Radeon card because I wanted to dodge the ridiculous Nvidia AI markups, but it’s already showing signs of running better with my Linux machine, so I don’t expect I’ll be going back to the green menace.
I don’t need a 5090 though. My 2070 is still going alright, don’t really see a reason to replace it right now.
Why give the company at the epicenter of the coming financial crash your money?
This is like hoping for the sub-prime market to crash so that you can afford a Bear-Stearns home loan at a favourable interest rate.
the assets the loans were on got significantly cheaper after the mortgage crash
If the economy crashes we are the ones who are gonna be fucked… I don’t think I can afford a 5090 before or after.
I am fascinated that people think if only the economy crashes everything will be back to normal. No, we are all fucked. The billionaires have already fucked us all.
Just gotta wait for the strategic oil reserves to run out while diaperman keeps closing the strait, and it’ll be a big ol’ happy happy
Its like how people think they will be able to by a house if there is a housing market crash like corporations won’t still be the highest bidders.
if you have USD/other currency but not assets the economy crashing is good if you are a wageslave it’s bad.
Did you remove your own upvote?
Perhaps the upvote was in their own country’s social currency, but then rapid hyperinflation happened since they commented. Lemmy was just showing us its value adjusted by the current exchange rate.
Not if the economy crashing causes increased inflation and interest rates, then you’d wish you had assets that hold value rather than currency which will lose its value.
Although, given the numbers most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have a wealth of assets or cash.
I’m out of the loop. What is a 5090?
GPU
I can’t help but think someone who doesn’t know what a 5090 is would be helped with the letters GPU.
It helped me a lot :D
I will be shocked if computer parts, aren’t, right now, the most affordable they are ever likely to be for the rest of your life.
My pet conspiracy theory is they’re trying to take compute power away from the proletariat so it can’t be used against them in the coming AI wars.
I also believe they want to take our compute power BUT I think they just want to turn it subscription based (e.g. cloud gaming)
No one needs a 5090.
Yeah ehh, I know it’s a meme but maybe say 5070 or even a 5080
i thought a 5090 was another version of 5150 but til
But millions of virtual waifus and half-hearted vibe-coded projects on GitHub will die!
That’s a sacrifice I want to make right now!
