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		dharma1 on April 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MiniGPT-4 4090 is amazing, but very large card. 3090 is "good enough" for ML - same 24gb vram - and you can pick them up used for half the price of a new 4090. That's what I did. WSL on windows apparently decent, or native PyTorch, dual boot windows/ubuntu still prob best tho.

artificial on April 17, 2023 [–]

Getting CUDA on OpenSUSE was super easy. The Nvidia blob drivers are easy to install and CUDA needs another download and some copy paste. Even Unreal Editor was easier to install than on Windows.

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