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Cheapest M4 MAX Mac Studio WITH 128GB RAM is $3499
Cheapest M3 Ultra Mac Studio with AT LEAST 128 GB RAM (256GB model, only other is 96GB) is $5599

Available Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SFF PCs with 128GB RAM
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AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 --EVO-X2 AI Mini PC $1999​

Nimo's Smallest Office & Gaming AI PC - AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 (up to 5.1 GHz) - 128GB LPDDR5 8000MHz (16GB*8) - 2TB/4TB SSD With 3 Performance Modes Up to 120W $1869​

Bosgame M5 AI Mini Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 96GB/128GB+2TB $1699​

Framework's 128GB configs start at $2099 with a 1TB drive.​

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That 256 (edit: should be 512) bit bandwidth comes with a cost, to the point that we can purchase 2 MAX 395 devices for the same price (or just a bit more) and also keep the same software ecosystem we are already using. Their newer, faster devices are certainly NOT going to be any cheaper.​


They are both stabbing at different sections of the market, which is admittedly quite niche at this point.
 
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LightningZ71 said:
Cheapest M4 MAX Mac Studio WITH 128GB RAM is $3499
Cheapest M3 Ultra Mac Studio with AT LEAST 128 GB RAM (256GB model, only other is 96GB) is $5599

Available Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SFF PCs with 128GB RAM
GMKTek

AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 --EVO-X2 AI Mini PC $1999​

Nimo's Smallest Office & Gaming AI PC - AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 (up to 5.1 GHz) - 128GB LPDDR5 8000MHz (16GB*8) - 2TB/4TB SSD With 3 Performance Modes Up to 120W $1869​

Bosgame M5 AI Mini Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 96GB/128GB+2TB $1699​

Framework's 128GB configs start at $2099 with a 1TB drive.​

​

That 256 bit bandwidth comes with a cost, to the point that we can purchase 2 MAX 395 devices for the same price (or just a bit more) and also keep the same software ecosystem we are already using. Their newer, faster devices are certainly NOT going to be any cheaper.​


They are both stabbing at different sections of the market, which is admittedly quite niche at this point.
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I was so looking forward to Strix Halo, but these things are insanely expensive 😭
 
The performance and power of the CPU part seems comparable to Strix Halo.
But it's on 3nm instead of 4nm. Really...? Is the die size at least much smaller?
 
soresu said:
I was so looking forward to Strix Halo, but these things are insanely expensive 😭
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Insanely expensive as compared to... what exactly? How cheaply do you think that you can get a pro level video card that has at least 96GB of VRAM? The NVidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell is north of $8000. There's a Huawei card that's a bit of an unknown quantity, but it's still almost $2000... And that's before you build the rest of the system...

They aren't obscenely expensive, they're just pricey, but for their targeted workload, they are priced quite well. I think that, were I to have the money to buy one, I'd still pass. I don't think that RDNA 3.5 is quite there yet for the GPU side. If they ever do one with RDNA 4 or 5, that'll probably be where it would be in a good place for 3-4 years of solid relevance.
 
DrMrLordX said:
We were warned about the display unit . . .
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That is why I quoted it, to confirm the warnings in case anyone had doubts😉

The Hardcard said:
For LLMs, bandwidth is as important as compute and the Mac Studios have 512 bits up to 128 GB RAM capacity and 1024 bits up to 512 GB of RAM.
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But they lack compute. Neither is actually supposed to replace H100😉
LightningZ71 said:
That 256 bit bandwidth comes with a cost, to the point that we can purchase 2 MAX 395
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512b bandwidth?
gdansk said:
The performance and power of the CPU part seems comparable to Strix Halo.
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At least Halo doesn't idle at 40W😉 [to be fair they did not mention the conditions for the idle power draw measurements, like if the fibers were connected]. I also wonder if STH did turn off core parking, as by default Windows will park 2nd CCD and usually it will hamper MT scores as the system tries to move as much load to the first CCD as possible. Of course it's AMD problem, but easily fixable.
 
MS_AT said:
But they lack compute. Neither is actually supposed to replace H100😉
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As noted in the part of the quote that you edited out, the solution to the low compute is already in silicon and will be coming in the new Studios this summer.

Yes, the people who are able and willing to buy, power, and cool an H100 and a supporting system would never consider any of these boxes. I agree we can rule out all the people who can drop $50K or more for their local training and inference uses. An astute observation that one is.
 
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AMD SH does like 32 tok/sec, much cheaper. This spark is strictly for people with more money than sense.
 
mvprod123 said:
Lol. The M5 Pro/Max with its new GPU architecture will crush it. I wouldn't be surprised if the M5 Pro comes with a max configuration of 128 GB RAM, and the M5 Max gets 256 GB RAM.
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I don't be even surprised if they revives the Ultra tier... with 512 GB RAM...
 
DZero said:
I don't be even surprised if they revives the Ultra tier... with 512 GB RAM...
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M3 Ultra already supports 512GB. If there is an M5 Ultra, it will likely be higher since  has been steadily increasing the max RAM (e.g. M2 Ultra was 192GB). I’m thinking 1TB in the next round, as long as they can source the appropriate memory chips. M5 max might go to 256.
 
ashFTW said:
M3 Ultra already supports 512GB. If there is an M5 Ultra, it will likely be higher since  has been steadily increasing the max RAM (e.g. M2 Ultra was 192GB). I’m thinking 1TB in the next round, as long as they can source the appropriate memory chips. M5 max might go to 256.
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1TB RAM... that's really insane.
 
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Geez, NV is sponsoring the official Microsoft Ignite backpack meanwhile AMD is sponsoring water bottle. Wonder what are NV and AMD cooking? 😛
 
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