5090 Upgrade?

[Dwayne016]

Hey there guys. I was wondering if i should upgrade to a 5090 from a 3090 Ti or get a second 3090 Ti and use NVLink for 48GB of VRAM. My primary use is for rendering in Blender. 

[SorryBella]

5 minutes ago, Dwayne016 said:

Hey there guys. I was wondering if i should upgrade to a 5090 from a 3090 Ti or get a second 3090 Ti and use NVLink for 48GB of VRAM. My primary use is for rendering in Blender. 

You already got the PSU capacity? Even on 1200W a 2x 3090Ti trips the OCP on most PSU. I would go for 5090 personally unless if you can find high capacity PSU, already have the case to accommodate everything, and then deal with the other issue associated with dual GPU like cooling it down. I personally wouldnt bother.

 

And mind you that NVLink still wont turn your VRAM pool to 48GB, so your argument point is kinda null and void unless if you are willing to go through Blender complicated means to properly setup multi GPU instancing.

[Dwayne016]

1 minute ago, SorryBella said:

You already got the PSU capacity? Even on 1200W a 2x 3090Ti trips the OCP on most PSU. I would go for 5090 personally unless if you can find high capacity PSU, already have the case to accommodate everything, and then deal with the other issue associated with dual GPU like cooling it down. I personally wouldnt bother.

 

And mind you that NVLink still wont turn your VRAM pool to 48GB, so your argument point is kinda null and void unless if you are willing to go through Blender complicated means to properly setup multi GPU instancing.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NKHbpK this is the original plan. If i need to alter it, I'm up for it.

 

Is it that hard? The renders my friend and i share and add too it, its been getting too big for me so it takes a while for some things to render so i figured adding another would help with the rendering time,

[SorryBella]

Just now, Dwayne016 said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NKHbpK this is the original plan. If i need to alter it, I'm up for it.

 

Is it that hard? The renders my friend and i share and add too it, its been getting too big for me so it takes a while for some things to render so i figured adding another would help with the rendering time

Yeah it'll help render time but not scene size. You're still going to be in that 24GB confine.

 

Though your plan does look solid for Blender if you can find that 2 3090Ti on used market. That 1700$ is down from the initial MSRP but the street price on used market is 1000$. That'll be a massive cut, but as you can quickly tell, 5090 MSRP is 2 grand. I think you get where I'm going with this. The bandwidth constrains of that also limits you to Intel, while AMD performs better on Blender in render and modeling. So yeah, id recommend the wait unless if I'm missing something and you're going to get 3090Ti off bargain bin. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($589.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($269.51 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL30 Memory  ($176.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($284.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Silicon Power UD90 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Video Card  ($2000.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case  ($205.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $3927.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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[Dwayne016]

4 minutes ago, SorryBella said:

Yeah it'll help render time but not scene size. You're still going to be in that 24GB confine.

 

Though your plan does look solid for Blender if you can find that 2 3090Ti on used market. That 1700$ is down from the initial MSRP but the street price on used market is 1000$. That'll be a massive cut, but as you can quickly tell, 5090 MSRP is 2 grand. I think you get where I'm going with this. The bandwidth constrains of that also limits you to Intel, while AMD performs better on Blender in render and modeling. So yeah, id recommend the wait unless if I'm missing something and you're going to get 3090Ti off bargain bin. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($589.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($269.51 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL30 Memory  ($176.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($284.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Silicon Power UD90 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB Video Card  ($2000.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case  ($205.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $3927.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-01-10 22:44 EST-0500

I know someone who is planning on selling theirs so having a backup plan is something i tend to do. Ill keep this list in hand. I want to have a reference for a AMD build if i go that route.  Thank you for sharing. I've been told Intel is great for productivity so my plan was to stick to it, the new chips looks great. I'm waiting until Windows updates the issue they are having with Intel new chips before i push my plan ahead. (13900k is a backup plan if the issue isnt fixed. AMD is plan C now)

[SorryBella]

7 minutes ago, Dwayne016 said:

I've been told Intel is great for productivity so my plan was to stick to it

Well you didnt specify anything but blender and as linked, right now AMD has the advantage due to raw thread count. 

 

7 minutes ago, Dwayne016 said:

until Windows updates the issue they are having with Intel new chips before i push my plan ahead

Its not Windows, its Intel's microcode. Youll need BIOS update on it. Unless if you mean the latest generation headaches which i missed in the news.

[Dwayne016]

3 minutes ago, SorryBella said:

Well you didnt specify anything but blender and as linked, right now AMD has the advantage due to raw thread count. 

Its the main app I use. I also use CAD for design but thats just a side project and I'm still learning the program.

3 minutes ago, SorryBella said:

Its not Windows, its Intel's microcode. Youll need BIOS update on it. Unless if you mean the latest generation headaches which i missed in the news.

From the video GN and LTT released, its something to do with Windows but that was around a few weeks after the release. I haven't kept up with their news since then. So hopefully it is fixed by the time 5090 comes out and I pull the trigger for whatever plan i end up choosing

[Andathar]

you can buy a 4090 and take the chip off of both swaping them then upgrading the memory on the 3090 the 4090 chip has the same pinout as the 3090 and iff you max the vram (solder on max vram) you get a 4090 with 48 gb ram on a single card how ever the 4090 will be runing with the limitations the 3090 had minus the clocks and cores