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Ataru074 t1_iyhp40v wrote

Reply to comment by normie1990 in [Discussion] Should I go with Threadripper 5000 and multi-GPU, or Ryzen 9 with single GPU? by normie1990

As someone who actually built a system like that with the 3000 series.. yes, it can run crysis in 640*480 minimum settings.

You are looking at a 5 figures system when all said and done which will be worth half of it in one year or so.

That’s the equivalent of 400+ hours of training on the most expensive A100 cloud solution you can buy.

And that’s just for the bare metal. Add having to supply about 2.5kwh to keep such system running, 400 hours is a whole lot of time.

I never used my system for so much training, but hey… I can run crysis.

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Dmytro_P t1_iyjw1xh wrote

400 hours is less than 3 weeks of training, if you plan to have the system loaded for at least half a year, building your own system may be quite a bit cheaper.

I have built a similar 3000 series system as well (with the reduced power limit to around 300W per GPU, the performance impact is not as large), renting for the time it was used would cost me significantly more.

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normie1990 OP t1_iyi2cpn wrote

It will also be my main workstation for coding, playing games, etc, I just want it to do AI as well :)

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Ataru074 t1_iyi2vrv wrote

You can get away with waaaaaaay less power than that.

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normie1990 OP t1_iyi6fix wrote

Yes I think I will go with a Ryzen 9 platform with a single 4090 GPU. It's not very expandable like adding a ton of ram and multiple GPUs, but should be good enough for training detectron2 and yolo... I think. And cost way less than a threadripper platform.

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