What are people’s thoughts about RTX 4000 Blackwell (24GB) or RTX 4500 Blackwell (32GB)? I know they’re not officially supported, but GPU prices just seem to stay ridiculous forever, and these look like a budget option.
They seem to have enough VRAM for what I need, which is really my main headache right now, but I’m not sure about the actual performance. From what I’ve seen, they don’t look that much faster than cards that are already a few years old.
I’m not too worried about the lack of official support causing problems. Just looking for some reaworld feedback or advices.
I don’t know if the docs have been updated or not but @Slabrie confirmed they were supported at NAB for the 2027 release along side of a few mid tier workstations from the usual folks in his Logik presentation.
If you read closely it says ‘minimum NVidia RTX card’ and ‘Recommended’ and then various members of 5000 and 6000 cards. Meaning there is gray space to be filled in. Usually the smaller cards have the same functionality, just fewer cores and less memory. From a Flame perspective they should be equivalent, so it’s more of a question which resolution and model sizes the cards can handle. That will come down to some benchmarks.
For the lucky who were at NAB 2026, I went through the list of the upcoming qualified HW and we are working on updating the Flame System Requirements page somewhere next week. But the whole RTX Pro series (4000 to 6000) has been qualified so you will have options based on your budget, HW availability and expected performance.
We will also update this page for the new hardware options form DELL, HP and Lenovo as the qualifications are completed so make sure to visit the page in the upcoming weeks to see the latest and greatest.
