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by yolobey 2993 days ago
Just in the process of outfitting the office with Thinkpad T480s's.

Why not X1 Carbon? At first it was the MX150 option for deep learning on the go, but we decided to drop that because it was going to be a pain the ass in Linux and it's not a very good GPU anyway - better to ssh to the server (The variant in T480s is 25% slower even though it has the same model name). Now it's just the price... Not quite worth the upgrade price for that many machines, and the limited upgradeability means we can get 8gb now and add 8 more when there is a bit more liquidity.
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bhouston 2993 days ago
The mx150 is a piece of crap GPU. It performs at less than half the performance of a GeForce 1050 and a third of a 1050 ti (which are in the Dell XPS 15 series.)

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

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yolobey 2993 days ago
Yeah and that's the 1D10 variant. The 1D12 variant in T480s is even slower.

If it wasn't for the Linux driver headaches I still might have gone for it to have another way to check if CUDA code was running properly without having to ssh to the central server.

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MatthiasP 2993 days ago
You need to compare it to its predecessor the 940MX. Its a huge step up from that.
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