That's a fun comparison, but can you run those 2 m5 pros in parallel to accomplish 2x the work? Otherwise, you just told me you can buy 2 toyota corollas for the price of 1 F-150 while trying to convince me you can haul your boat behind both corollas at the same time.

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lm28469 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You can also buy a 64gb mini, save $1k and do more work than what you could do with a single 5090.

In Europe I can get a 128gb mac studio m4 max for 300 euros more than a 5090 (for which you still need to buy a power supply, motherboard, cpu , &c.)

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hrmtst93837 6 hours ago | parent [-]

But the inference on the mac studio m4 max will be slower than on the 5090, even though you can load larger models.

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lm28469 6 hours ago | parent [-]

All I'm saying is that the comparison doesn't make sense. The 5090 is faster on a small subset of tasks if attached to a computer which ends up being 3x the price of a m5 machine that fit the same model or the same price as a machine that fits models 5x bigger

	▲	dylan604 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So you're saying that buying 2 Corollas for the cost of 1 Ferrari engine would be better? Even though the Ferrari engine is much more powerful, it's useless without the rest of the car.