u/Fasha_Moonleaf

This is where the fun begins!

For gaming? Suboptimal (but possible and even very decent). For everything else? This thing is a MONSTAAAAA!!!

So I have this little thing here (a HPE DL380 Gen9) and I love tinkering with it. For the last year I experimented a little bit and my NVidia RTX A4000 was "good enough" for most things.

Now, I'm thinking of upgrading my GPU and I have two options:

A) NVidia RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell with 32 GB of VRAM for 1800 €. The card was only used for a stress test for 3 days and then got replaced by the 6000 variant. The seller still has the receipts for all of his 25 cards (...like, wth?).

B) SAPPHIRE Radeon Pro W7800 48GB LITE for 2180 €. This one is brand new.

I am at a crossroad and I have to decide which one I want to get into my little server here. On the one side, there is this really good NVidia card and I already know how to work with CUDA. On the other there is this VRAM monster, but I would have to learn to work with ROCm.

Which one would you choose, and why (so that I know for what you would use it)?