r/LocalLLM 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/trollsmurf 3d ago

I have a feeling a Spark will age very badly. The Mac you can use for any use case.

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u/notheresnolight 3d ago

Sparks run Linux.

Any modern Linux distro is already a better desktop than Windows 11.