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Nah man. A 4090 is way faster, especially per dollar spent. I have nothing against Apple and own an M3 Max MBP as well, but lets be real here.
by ein0p 3y ago
Nah man. A 4090 is way faster, especially per dollar spent. I have nothing against Apple and own an M3 Max MBP as well, but lets be real here.
- enceladus06 3y agoFor today’s ai-accelerated workloads, will you use a 14th gen intel + 4090 or Apple M3? The software tooling is not available for Apple, there is no CUDA support basically. This is not an emotional judgment, if an Apple supported cuda on Apple Silicon I’d use it, but it doesn’t.
- ein0p 3y agoI use both. Apple’s higher end hardware works well for local LLM inference thanks to its unusually high memory bandwidth and frugal energy consumption. But for serious work you need CUDA, no ifs or buts.
- andreygrehov 3y agoMy apologies. The link I provided is not reliable by any means. I actually knew about this, but somehow forgot. Apple can compete with 4090 only for a certain types of tasks (LLMs?), but overall you are correct, 4090 is way faster.