Re:AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion...
by grujicd on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:13AM
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It's not as if Nvidia is always a better choice. Things turned around a bit when new crop of games (The Last of Us, Hogwarts Legacy, etc) came out, requiring more than 8GB of VRAM. They do work with 8GB, but with lot more stutterging as textures have to be constantly transfered from main RAM. For these games amount of VRAM made a huge difference. At that point in time, AMD had more mid level cards with 12GB (6700) and 16GB (6800) and for considerably less money than equivalent Nvidia, at least in Europe. Nvidia cheapened and stuck to 8GB even for 3070 which was more expensive than 16GB 6080 around here.. This became a big issue and pushed Nvidia to put more VRAM in next generation.
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Re:AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion...
by BoorishBears on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:59AM
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If you actually try and find proof of the 8GB fiasco, there's mostly one source that put together an artificial scenario where they pushed a bottom end card to 4k on newly launched console ports which then got optimized.
NVIDIA said as much, released a 16GB version, and lo-and-behold it's absolutely pointless, even performing worse than the 8GB at times: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060...
Most graphics cards are still under 8GB of VRAM, and raw numbers of memory storage mean nothing for performance in isolation.