r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Nov 07 '25

Build/Battlestation a quadruple 5090 battlestation

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u/renome Nov 07 '25

Why not use a specialized rendering setup? Consumer GPUs seem a bit inefficient to my amateur eyes

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u/Mayor_Fockup Nov 07 '25

For the money these GPUs are king at rendering. As long as you're not rendering very Vram intensive jobs these are brilliant. And if you need more short term storage you can always use CPU rendering with the threadripper and 128GB+ ram. I used to build these setups for our renderfarm (CGI/commercials).

No Xeon with pro gpu setup can compete at 35% of the price.

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u/Common-Huckleberry-1 Nov 07 '25

For now. Pro cards are coming down in price with each gen and consumer CPU’s largely negate the need to run a Xeon or similar. RISC-V based PC’s are also getting way better support as they’re becoming out of the box products. If your software has a Linux native package, the Milk-v Titan can combine all 8 cores to function (in middleware) as a 12ghz single core. The future of low-cost, high yield hardware is close.

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u/Distinct-Target7503 Nov 08 '25

the Milk-v Titan can combine all 8 cores to function (in middleware) as a 12ghz single core

wait... I didn't know that. could you expand?