But millions of virtual waifus and half-hearted vibe-coded projects on GitHub will die!

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.

No one needs a 5090.

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.

if you have USD/other currency but not assets the economy crashing is good if you are a wageslave it's bad.

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.

i thought a 5090 was another version of 5150 but til

I’m out of the loop. What is a 5090?

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.

GPU

I don't need a 5090 though. My 2070 is still going alright, don't really see a reason to replace it right now.

RX 9060 XT gang

That's a sacrifice I want to make right now!

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.

Yeah ehh, I know it’s a meme but maybe say 5070 or even a 5080

I'm not an economist but I don't think that's how that works.

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.

the assets the loans were on got significantly cheaper after the mortgage crash

You don't need this.

Did you remove your own upvote?

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

A bit misandrist but sure.

I can't help but think someone who doesn't know what a 5090 is would be helped with the letters GPU.

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.

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.

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)

It helped me a lot :D

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 mean, they can now search "5090 GPU" instead of just a number and see themselves what a 5090 is, if someone managed to use lemmy, they can manage to use a search engine

Did u reply to the wrong post?

I'm sure all of the Zimbabweans hoarding some large denimination $1,000 stacks of cash under their bed were still doing great after the 12mil% hyperinflation caused the central bank to issue $100,000,000,000,000 notes.

They kinda missed the boat on that one. We passed the point of diminishing returns in graphics hardware years ago and now the only reason to get a high-end card is conspicuous consumption.

If the economy crashes, there's a chance the chip fabs go under, especially if they're holding the trillions in debt hot potato.

Why? Are you cold? There are better ways to start a fire.

I'm so happy I bought a 4090 and 64GB of RAM in 2023. This shit is ridiculous.

My GTX 1060 has to hang on a little longer...

While it is true that they are at their lowest levels in a long time, the reality is that between domestic production that we have available and the reserves, even if our usage continued to grow, we still have a few years worth before we would actually genuinely run out.

Poor corporations, they were too slow ;-; /s

If I understood correctly you’re saying that the hardware is not improving that fast, right? I had no idea that was the case

Fuck it. Gimme a 6000.

Eh, they're sitting on tons of cash. Nvidia, AMD and the AI companies may pass debt around, but TSMC is being paid money for their services. RAM and NAND companies, too, made record profits last year.

They're expanding, but conservatively.

Tbf they could already just search 5090 and likely get relevant results, the number isn't that popular in other contexts. I opened a new private browsing session and the first two results for just "5090" were nvidia and a local electronics retailer (I used google, it gives you results by country by default)

That's what the 5090 is for. Excellent for running local LLMs.

More that games already look good enough that the improvements from better hardware are getting harder and harder to notice.

Yeah ofc but with such generic wording you cannot be sure to get the right thing, it happens to me way too often, 2 words is the minimum to get decent results for most searches

If the economy crashes the tech sector goes with it - which you can bet would be paying for this person's 5090.

I managed to grab a 9070 XT earlier this year for $630 bundled with a 750W power supply. I guess the bundle was to deter scalpers from buying it.

AMD GPUs are going to run better on Linux than NVidia because the drivers are in the kernel. You have to install the NVidia proprietary drivers separately if they're even available because they don't support that many models. Linus himself gave NVidia the finger for being so hard to work with.

Better get two so that there's enough power for the v-girl to give live commentary on the gameplay.

Just buy 2x 3000s /s

If the economy crashes we are all going to be looking for new jobs.