Miss B posted at 1:31PM Mon, 03 May 2021 - #4418196

wolf359 posted at 1:33PM Sun, 02 May 2021 - #4418195

I haven't looked, but I wonder of the GTX 16xx series of cards are as unobtainable as the nVidia RTZ cards. Then again, the RTX series have even newer 30xx cards, so it's possible those are the ones that are unobtainable.

Yeah, it's the RTX 30xx series that are virtually unobtainable right now. It's partly due to the high demand during this pandemic but mostly due to massive demand by bitcoin miners again. The RTX 20xx series or the GTX 1660 shouldn't be that hard to get, aside from some out-of-stock notices due to delays in deliveries and such.

If you're a gamer, then AMD cards are probably the smart move these days, as they have some newer cards that blow away Nvidia on a price-per-performance ratio. However, as content creators, Nvidia cards are a must. There's just no comparison. CUDA and Optix technology are just far easier to program for and offer the best acceleration in most software packages. Blender being the primary one for me, but also Adobe and some video production software too.

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