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Too late to edit my post but wanted to apologise for causing confusion. I suppose "cheapest" can be a very subjective term if the comparison is between things
by fancyfredbot 2y ago
Too late to edit my post but wanted to apologise for causing confusion.
I suppose "cheapest" can be a very subjective term if the comparison is between things with different capabilities.
NVIDIA is a cheaper option than AMD only if you compare assume you want/need the fast networking NVIDIA are bundling with their system. According to the article the NIC would add $1500-$2000 to the price of another systems. I also failed to account for the extra memory bandwidth offered by M4 max. The apple system costs more but if you want/need that bandwidth then it's the cheapest of the three.
I guess "the system has a niche where it offers very good price/performance" is what I should have said. Not as snappy though.
- bitsandboots 2y agoI'd say the SGX is the "cheapest" only if you're trying to go beyond 96GB. the AMD system is 96GB max for the GPU. The 128GB allocates a minimum of 32GB to the CPU. the Nvidia system is designed to be connected to a second if so desired, making it the cheapest way to get 256GB. If you're just going for something under 96GB, haven't seen something cheaper than the AMD system for anything that can't fit on a traditional GPU. And even then, GPUs are obscene ripoff prices lately. Here's hoping these won't be scalped too.
- ezschemi 2y agoThe 96GB is the maximum on Windows. On Linux, you can allocate 110GB.