alt Hacker NewsA 128GB 2TB Dell Pro Max with Nvidia GB10 is about $4200, a Mac Studio with 128GB RAM and 2TB storage is $4100. So pretty comparable. I think Dell's pricing has been rocked more by the RAM shortage too.
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traceroute66 • today at 2:52 PM
> So pretty comparable.
The Mac Studio almost certainly uses at least half the power
(educated guess, I'm too lazy to go look at all the spec sheets and run the numbers)
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plagiarist • today at 1:33 PM
Not quite, what is the vRAM bandwidth of each? The bandwidth is a huge contributor to LLM performance.
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Unfortunately the GB10 is incredibly bandwith starved. You get 128gb ram, but only 270GB/s bandwidth. The M3 Ultra mac studio gets you 820GB/s. (The M4 max is at 410GB/s. I'm not aware of any workload that gets the GB10 to it's theoretical peakflops.