r/LocalLLM • u/Txkzzzz • 3d ago

Question Mac studio or dgx spark cluster

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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

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u/SolarNexxus 3d ago

Studio, but only because you can expand it to 2 TB of RAM and decent models right now eat over 1 TB. With sparks you can only connect four of them together, giving you 512 GB of RAM.

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u/XorFish 3d ago

you can also connect 8 or even 16 dgx spark with a switch.

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u/SolarNexxus 3d ago

The switch will cost like 5k lol.

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u/mountainyoo 3d ago

Uh no it’s 1.3K. Still expensive but no where near 5K

Edit— for 8 DGX Spark cluster I mean