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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Perhaps most impressively, the Mac Studio accomplishes this while consuming under 200 watts of power. Comparable performance on traditional PC hardware would require multiple GPUs drawing approximately ten times more electricity.

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However, this performance doesn't come cheap – a Mac Studio configured with M3 Ultra and 512GB of RAM starts at around $10,000. Fully maxed out, an M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 16TB of SSD storage and an Apple M3 Ultra chip with 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine costs a cool $14,099. Of course, for organizations requiring local AI processing of sensitive data, the Mac Studio offers a relatively power-efficient solution compared to alternative hardware configurations.

I wonder what a multi-GPU x86-64 system with adequate RAM and everything would cost? If it’s less, how many kWh of electricity would it take for the Mac to save money?

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

It would be less if NVIDIA & AMD wasn't in an antitrust duopoly. You can get two XTX for less than $2000 with 48GB total VRAM.

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