Yes, you can get by with an AMD GPU but it'll be a lot more work, and a lot more frustration. It's worth spending the $0.90 per hour to use AWS, or less if you

Yes, you can get by with an AMD GPU but it'll be a lot more work, and a lot more frustration. It's worth spending the $0.90 per hour to use AWS, or less if you get spot instances. You can do much of your prototyping on just a CPU, and only run on the GPU on more data once it's working well.