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What’s the M1 mac mini like for Machine Learning?
I’m contemplating the M1 mac mini as a ML machine and was wondering what experience others have had with it.
- PaulHoule 5y agoWhat I have read is that the M1 is fast and efficient to train small models w/ Tensorflow but NVIDIA wins for big models.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI have a M1 MacBook Pro, and it is alright for running TensorFlow. I have two conda environments set up, tf (CPU), and tf_m1 (Apple silicon GPU, CPU). Some of my TF models, mainly multiple rower models have to run on just the CPU, but most of my models use the GPU.
- garbagecoder 5y agoI have been playing around with the M1 Pro for compute by making some toys that take advantage of its hardware directly, mostly in arm64 asm and c. I won’t pretend I was able to get every cycle optimized—I’m still working on the code—but it’s great so far.