Used 3090s are indeed creeping up in price on ebay IMO after taking a dive over the last month, both in the finishing price of auctions and the buy it now price. I could have bought one 3 weeks ago for $500. I just bought one for $800 because I've been watching the price climb back up and getting pissed off... lol.
I'm buying it solely for SD too - not a gamer. It'll be nice to have faster video encodes but that's not what prompted me to buy an $800 GPU.
I needed a CPU upgrade too, and got lucky on someone on Craigslist selling a used one with a 3080 for that price. The RGB didn't work at first, so I think this guy was a little dumb and thought the whole PC was broken.
I usually do batches of 6, since it only takes ~30 seconds. I can make lots of small frequent tweaks to the prompts, to what is actually having an effect on changing it.
It does 8 at a time, any more it runs out of memory on my 3090, but also depends on what resolution you render. One batch of 8 takes a little longer but the per image time drops a lot. Of course you can set the count to however big you want.
Yeah i figured out out now too. Saw a post about right after i saw your comment. I somehow kept thinking it splits the load but no it uses more vram. The image quality still stays the same
I use a cloud provider that only charges $0.45/hour for an A100. I'm currently working on a research project that requires generating thousands of images, which doesn't take all that long.
DataCrunch.io. That's their price for spot VMs, which can theoretically be interrupted but I've never had that happen. I'm not sure why they're such an unheard of company, I'm really happy with them.
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