I want to build a new pc with some new and some old components. Bottleneck is darktable and handbrake.
Which Nvidia graphics adapter would have an excellent value for the price?
I am willing to pay about $400 / 400€ for the graphics adapter, with good reasons a little bit more.
At the moment my pc uses a GTX 1660, which is pretty old.
Benchmarks which compare the GTX 1660 with new gpus are welcome.
the fastest you can get up to 400 is a 5060 TI
With my GTX 1660 it didn’t make sense to buy the TI, more expensive for the same speed.
So benchmarks would be nice to compare.
you can find benchmarks on the net. phoronix might even have some opencl benchmarks.
How do I find devices at phoronix? I uploaded my tests, but can’t find them anymore.
I am interested in the difference between 5060TI and 4060.
I got my 3060 for like $325 with 12GB ram and it is quite fast. You should prioritize vram over clockspeed, as any speed gains are lost if you have to tile on the GPU.
there are 5060 TI with 16GB RAM but they are 449 euro at least.
Be careful with newer nvidia cards. They might need a larger power supply.
A card with 6gb would be my choice. 4gb is still good.
many modern GPUs might require upgrading your PSU.
There will be a new power supply too. It only counts, that it works without problems using ubuntu.
So there is no advantage in speed with 16GB cards? Assume that raw-files have 50MB. Years before I had problems with “tiling”.
At the moment I am thinking on a card with 8GB and DDR7.
I am using parts of my old pc, but everything which needs to be new will be new.
For sure I will buy a new CPU, but no idea which, probably from AMD, depends on the motherboard, which I choose. I have to think carefully about the features I really need.
Are you sure that the 5060 works with Ubuntu 24.04? Looks like it doesn’t. I think it is better to take a 3060.
You may have your reasons for wanting Nvidia, and then this is not an answer to your question, but I would suggest you also look into recent Intel Arc B-series GPUs. I have only tested B580 12GB and it performs very well. Uses 8-pin power connector and is of modest size. For me the big advantage was that all support (kernel module, OpenCL runtime) is already in standard Debian/Ubuntu distributions. No kernel module compiles (Nvidia), no repository to configure for OpenCL support (ROCm for AMD). Here is a comparison for B-series: