Card prices are crazy because of mining, that being said, AMD works well in Blender. And typically you can get the results of Nvida rendering at half the price with AMD cards. The drivers are not as polished as Nvida, and unless you care about gaming, AMD cards perform well for 3D workload stuffs. I‘m not against Nvida I have a card laying around, but with 2 AMD gpus or 2 of the AMD workstations cards – which house 2 gpus each, you are going to get nearly the same or slightly better performance in some cases for less the Titan V for instance near 1-2k less depending on the cards route.
Look at stock market analysts remarking on how AMD is gaining ground on Nivida specifically because of crypto mining. Heavy computational work loads that make money, and AMD cards seem to out perform Nvida cards in hashrates. I was looking at TitanXP‘s and decided to go with Vega FEs. They have more memory and I could get a closed loop water cooled card for the same price as an air cooled Titan Xp. If you have the money I would consider FirePros which are near half price of their Nvida counterpart, and the performance difference is not nearly as large as the price.
Also note – the entire Intel CPU fiasco that reduced chip speed by 30% to fix a gapping problem. Another win for AMD and threadrippers.
