New graphics card - Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 12GB
Last week, I bought a secondhand Galax Geforce RTX 3060 so I can finally replace the old ATI Radeon HD 4350 which had the sole purpose of giving a display output. Now that I have a proper Nvidia graphics card in the server with sufficient amount of CUDA and decent amount of VRAM, I can actually do some cool things with it. I have an RTX 3060 Ti in my work computer which worked great for gaming, but the 8 GB of VRAM can be limiting in terms of running or training AI.
With 12 GB VRAM, it can generate 1080p pictures in Stable Diffusion with ease whereas with 8 GB VRAM, I could never do so without crippling generation speed and quality. Combined with AI upscalers, it means 4k pictures are actually viable.
