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RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Re: RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Post by arendtio »

nomel wrote: post #72
hamdingers wrote: post #23

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You're paying a premium for physical compatibility with a ton of niche accessories. Whether or not they make sense depends on how important those accessories are to your use case. That and the prices never really came back down to earth after the chip shortage hikes.

> You're paying a premium for physical compatibility No. There are a bunch of alternatives with some to full pin compatibility. Some being many times faster [1]. No new projects should use a new Raspberry Pi. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQ5ascBuCw

Thanks for the video. I just bought a RPI5 and was curious if this was a mistake, but after watching the whole 'I love PI' video, I am still okay with my choice.

It is good to know that there are other boards with better multi-thread performance and AI capabilities. However, there are also a few things I disagree with in the test setup, such as rating only multithread performance and giving the best single-thread performance the lowest overall rating. In addition, concluding the AI tests without the extension board for the RPI5 seems a bit weird.

So thank you for the video, but I think it depends on what you are trying to achieve and it is not a simple there you get more bang for your buck.

Re: RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Post by anthk »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #33
azalemeth wrote: post #13

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I'm pretty sure I completed Morrowind for the first time ever using both wine and a celeron. Likewise before that with VirtualPC (remember that?) on Mac OS (note the space!) and Age of Empires (not even Rise of Rome!). Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...

Flashbacks of gaming on an XP-era HP Pavilion with graphics so bad water didn’t even render in Halo 1 PC flood my mind. Countless kids played Morrowind below par spec on family computers all across America.

My Geforce2 MX 200/400 with an Athlon and 256MB of RAM began to become useless in ~2002/2003 with the new DX9 games.

Doom3? Missing textures. Half Life2? Maybe at 640x480. F.E.A.R? More like L.A.U.G.H. Times changed so fast (and on top of that, shitty console ports) that PCs didn't achieve great numbers at home until 2009 with a new machine.

Altough I began to play games like Angband, Nethack and the like in that era and in opened an amazing libre/indie world until today.

And, yes, I replayed Deus Ex because it had tons of secrets and it ran on a potato. Perfectly playable at 800x600 at max settings.

Re: RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Post by 7402 »

pharrington wrote: post #103
Aurornis wrote: post #48

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> I think the conclusion here is that Raspberry Pis are now too pricey This blog post shows a $2000 GPU attached to a slow SBC that costs less than 1/10th of the GPU. It’s interesting. It’s entertaining. It’s a fun read. But it’s not a serious setup that anyone considers optimal.

You think an RTX 5090 only costs $2000??

It does if you can get an RTX 5090 Founders Edition from Best Buy or Nvidia.

(I've been trying for a year with no luck - a few times I've gotten on the wait list for a purchase, but never successfully.)

Re: RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Post by pharrington »

7402 wrote: post #113
pharrington wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think an RTX 5090 only costs $2000??

It does if you can get an RTX 5090 Founders Edition from Best Buy or Nvidia. (I've been trying for a year with no luck - a few times I've gotten on the wait list for a purchase, but never successfully.)

Have you heard any anecdotes about someone who isn't a reviewer obtaining a RTX 5090 Founders Edition? I haven't.

Re: RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

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Post by throwaway894345 »

codeflo wrote: post #88
throwaway894345 wrote: post #77

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That’s interesting, particularly since as far as I can tell, nothing in userland really bothers to make use of its GPU. I would really like to understand why, since I have a whole bunch of Pi’s and it seems like their GPUs can’t be used for much of anything (not really much for transcoding nor for AI).

> their GPUs can’t be used for much of anything (not really much for transcoding nor for AI) It's both funny and sad to me that we're at the point where someone would (perhaps even reasonably) describe using the GPU only for the "G" in its name as not "much of anything".

Is video transcoding not “graphics”? Is it doing meaningful graphics work?
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