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Choosing a GPU (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by awooo@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social

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I'm looking to upgrade from a dying RX 590, and I'm eyeing the RX 6950 XT, which I can get for slightly less than 800 USD, I'm wondering if that'd be a good choice.

It's mostly for gaming, but I kinda want to run ML stuff and blender on the side, so I hope ROCm works well enough for that, I want to avoid NVIDIA because of Linux.

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[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I think it really depends on what you rely on ML and blender for. If you are making money using ML, then I would go for it. If you're just using ML as a hobby then I would try going for a 6800 and saving a little bit of cash. 6700 may also work well for you to, but you may want to look at an online comparison website and see which one you think would be best for you.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-6950-XT-vs-AMD-RX-6800-XT/m1843533vs4089

[–] Spitfire@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While I agree with the choice of a 6800 or 6700, please don't use userbenchmark. It's incredibly biased against AMD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSBj2LKkWg

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Dang, didn't even realize. Do you know of any better alternatives?

[–] foxy@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

You should look up some of the controversy with userbenchmark. The owner is a competitive shooter player so he favors single thread performance over basically everything. When he got called out by some big tech channels he had a tantrum and made pages on the site dedicated to trying to talk shit about them, linked right in the about page.

It's actually really funny.

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