[my123]

> - It needs extremely high-bandwidth controllers, which severely limits the amount of memory you can use (Intel Macs could be configured with an order of magnitude more ram in it's server chips)

In the first half of 2023, NVIDIA Grace Superchip will ship with an 1TB memory config (930GB usable because ECC bits) on a 1024-bit wide LPDDR5X-8533 config (same width as M1 Ultra, with LPDDR5-6400).

So it's going to become much less of an issue really soon.

[zdw]

> So it's going to become much less of an issue really soon.

The main issue would be trying to purchase one of those, which is likely going to be both very rare and orders of magnitude more expensive than a Mac Studio.

The Mac Studio isn't some crazy exotic hardware like datacenter class GPUs, but definitely has some exotic capabilities.

[my123]

> The Mac Studio isn't some crazy exotic hardware like datacenter class GPUs, but definitely has some exotic capabilities.

Datacenter class GPUs are expensive yeah, but are quite easy to buy, even in a single unit amount.

example: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/nvidia-ampere-a100-pcie... for the first random link, but there are other stores selling them for significantly cheaper.

I wonder what their CPU pricing will be though... we'll see I guess.