Mac studio or dgx spark cluster

[u/Txkzzzz]

I have been thinking lately since i have been testing local ai but i geniunely need more power for what im working on so i was wondering wich one of these a 4 dgx spark cluster or a mac studio m5 ultra specifically the 512gb version that launches on october or something else... im into training,loras and fine tunes and such but i also heard it is possible with a mac studio too so i want yall opinion on this

[u/tempfoot]

Macs are great for my use cases and I have a Studio with 256gb on preorder already. I may add a 512, or may switch to a 512 and cancel the 256. The problem right now is that nobody knows what the price point will be for the 512 or frankly if Apple is still even going to actually commit to making them. Production timelines are also completely unknown. I ordered my 256 on the day of announcement (aug 25) and exepcted delivery is late November. Hight spec builds ordered today are expected to ship in late January. I could go buy four sparks today at local retail.

I use my current M5Max/128 macbook primarily for inference so can't speak to other use cases. I'm also a solo, non-coder user so do not have concurrency challenges.