forum threadElon69 posted Yesterday 01:50 PM
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forum threadElon69 posted Yesterday 01:50 PM
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16" Laptop Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX 2.1GHz Processor; NVIDIA RTX 5090 24GB GDDR7; 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM; 2x 1TB $3199.99 (from $3999)
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Keep your expectations on performance realistic, laptop 5090s use the same GPU die GB203 as the 5080/5070 Ti desktop GB203 but with slightly less SMs than the 5080 desktop, flip side is 24GB VRAM. It is NOT a 5090 desktop, it has half the SMs of the GB202 5090 desktop. 5090 laptops perform slightly worse than 5070 Ti desktops in real world gaming. I have a main custom loop desktop with a 9950X3D and 5090 water blocked, there's no comparison.
I picked this laptop up preempting the apocalypse price hikes but I do enjoy using it. I primary use it to play near my boys when we play Riftbreaker together as a family. If you can afford it, it's a great laptop.
Calculating my ROI to justify everything that I'm doing funny we're doing the same exact thing to return the HP to get this.
I was just a little bit annoyed that the impact of loading some of the larger language, models and frankly, I just want an easier and little bit faster time on my image and video generation because I am just trying to do a lot of different iterations of work for once I perfected I probably won't need to use that this much GPU but you know time is money and I'm justifying my time doing it badly, but I'm still gonna buy it. Lol
Appreciate all the tips. I will do that when I get home and set up this Legion.!!! Damn you have a full desktop 5090 too.
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copying files now from my "old" Omen to this new machine to try it soon!
The $2799 maybe you were referring to a post of yours. but that was 32GB.
Ram isn't $400 to go from 32GB to 64GB but there is no Time Machine to go back to December Xmas deal either. It's still a deal for anyone who needs such a machine.
Some of the generations was taking about 150-180 seconds. Now they are 70 seconds for video. This is due to the 8GV extra VRAM and ~30% more GPU cores.
For text generations, some of the models are twice as fast and ones I could not load before are loading with the extra 8GB. I just wanted some flexibility.
FAN - Omen is definitely louder when the machine is on full blast, it did have a weird setup where the BACK of the computer is where you plug in the power and a few other ports. I haven't seen a laptop with ports in the back for Idk how many years. That was a little weird.
If I was ok waiting for more time to generate videos, I would have stayed with the Omen with 16GB VRAM. This is for convenience.
I did want more RAM, the OMEN was using up the 32GB system ram often also, part of it is swapping data out of VRAM due to not enough VRAM so now it's much smoother.
It's an expensive upgrade but I plan use AI a lot and each of these iterations is time wasting waiting for results.
I did the rough calculations that I would break even at the rate of experiments I am doing in about 4 months (vs. calling online APIs to generate videos)
One thing really weird, the Legion said it does not have a Windows Hello compatible camera? What the hell....
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It was fine, I wanted a faster machine.
Some of the generations was taking about 150-180 seconds. Now they are 70 seconds for video. This is due to the 8GV extra VRAM and ~30% more GPU cores.
For text generations, some of the models are twice as fast and ones I could not load before are loading with the extra 8GB. I just wanted some flexibility.
FAN - Omen is definitely louder when the machine is on full blast, it did have a weird setup where the BACK of the computer is where you plug in the power and a few other ports. I haven't seen a laptop with ports in the back for Idk how many years. That was a little weird.
If I was ok waiting for more time to generate videos, I would have stayed with the Omen with 16GB VRAM. This is for convenience.
I did want more RAM, the OMEN was using up the 32GB system ram often also, part of it is swapping data out of VRAM due to not enough VRAM so now it's much smoother.
It's an expensive upgrade but I plan use AI a lot and each of these iterations is time wasting waiting for results.
I did the rough calculations that I would break even at the rate of experiments I am doing in about 4 months (vs. calling online APIs to generate videos)
One thing really weird, the Legion said it does not have a Windows Hello compatible camera? What the hell....
For my budget and use case, I'll test out the Omen before making a decision to jump ship or not. Thanks again!
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