[dekhn]

I remain skeptical that Apple's best GPU silicon will match nvidia's premiere products (either the top-end desktop card, or a server monster) for training.

It seems like this is ideal as an accelerator for already trained models; one can imagine Photoshop utilizing it for deep-learning based infill-painting.

I was doing training on battery with a laptop that had a 1080 and could do training; I have trained models on the airplane while totalyl unplugged and still had enough power to websurf afterwards.