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Is apple silicon with a lot of memory 32Gb and up still considered a cheapish way to run models or are there other options now?
by christkv 2y ago
Is apple silicon with a lot of memory 32Gb and up still considered a cheapish way to run models or are there other options now?
- talldayo 2y agoA good Apple Silicon Mac with 32gb of RAM will cost you over $2,000 on-sale. For that price you might as well buy an Nvidia machine instead, either two 3090s or a 64gb Jetson Orin board would be both cheaper and faster. The markup on Apple hardware is so big that I just don't think "cheapish" will ever be a way to describe the position they hold in the AI market. Apple's current budget lineup gets smoked by an RTX 3060 in a cheap Linux homeserver; the bar for high-value AI has been raised pretty high.