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by incrudible 806 days ago
So from a CPU perspective you get 7x the CPU throughput for 3x to 4x the price, plus upgradable RAM that is massively cheaper. The M2 uses the GPU for LLMs though, and there it sits in a weird spot where 64GB of (slower) RAM plus midrange GPU performance is not something that exists in the PC space. The closest thing would probably be a (faster) 48GB Quadro RTX which is in the $5000 ballpark. For other use cases where VRAM is not such a limiting factor, the comparably priced PC will blow the Mac out of the water, especially when it comes to GPU performance. The only reason we do not have cheap 96GB GDDR GPUs is that it would cannibalize NVIDIA/AMDs high margin segment. If this was something that affected Apple, they would act the same.