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by tttttt5ts 1327 days ago
You won't for some time as ARC is only supported on Linux kernel 6+. And honestly, their hardware is pretty bad for ML given you can pick up a used 3090 for $600. I just don't think there will be an ML push for ARC with current gen.
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> And honestly, their hardware is pretty bad for ML given you can pick up a used 3090 for $600.

How do you know it's bad? Do you have benchmarks?

Just checked, used 3090s are going for $700-900 on eBay.

It won’t be able to make use of CUDA, which is more than enough reason.
hardwareswap.reddit.com is the best way to buy used computer hardware.
I think a recent Linux version requirement shouldn't hamper benchmarking if you're a somewhat technical user.

You can get the latest Linux pacakges for eg Ubuntu here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds - probably other distributions have similar easy ways since it's needed so often in bug reporting for users to tell if a hw support bug is in a distro specific kernel change or not.