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Is it worth getting a 5090 for my needs?
I'm considering biting the bullet and getting a pc with the following specs:
- 5090
- Amd 9950x3d
- X870 motherboard
- 32gb ram (16x2) CL32
EDIT2: Price for this is falling in the arena of 5500-6000 USD where I live.
Obviously costs a bomb. But I'm hoping it will become cost effective over time (10 years probably) as I intend to use it to learn as much as I can about LLMs and ideate and work on use cases for them. I also feel the future is going to be LLMs in some form or other and it's better late than never to try and keep up.
My questions
- how does it perform with dense models like qwen3.6-27B and gemma4-31B. These are most likely the models I'll be trying to build applications around.
- The alternative is using adhoc compute resources on vast.ai or maybe spend more for Google cloud or something. But that gets expensive also fast. I can keep costs down by keeping it adhoc but that increases friction.
- My only application is LLMs. I don't play games or anything else that needs a gpu like this one.
Edit: forgot to mention, my current system is a lenovo e14 laptop with 780m igpu and 32gb ram.
u/BitGreen1270 — 17 hours ago
