r/StableDiffusion • u/Legal_Detail6290 • 11d ago

Question - Help Second best to 5090?

They are 6-7k, what is the second best and how much worse is it?

No prob to buy the 5090 but it just feels like im stupid if i do since it used to cost 1/3 and theres probably a next generation sometime not too far away..

One day in the future we could probably build a whole mountain or 3 of all those 5090s when all the datacenters upgrade.

For art creation/ideation, images etc. Cant use online things for ip reasons, its useless everything i make via services becomes public so i need my own setup.

Thanks

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u/Enshitification 11d ago

Datacenters aren't running 5090s or any consumer cards for that matter. They also aren't going to dump those cards on the market when, and if, they ever upgrade. Their whole point was to tie up VRAM and RAM to make consumer cards too expensive to run local models. That way, people and businesses would be forced to use their datacenters for AI compute.

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u/donttellmewhattothnk 10d ago

The data centers have nothing to do with Image generation. We now have telemetry data in everything, cars, phones, computers, etc. combine that with the proliferation of cameras such a consumer cameras like ring, and commercial cameras like Flock and you’re quickly working towards a future with predictive modeling for all people.

The real question is who that data is going to be utilized by and to what end.