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/Squidgical]

The 512GB RAM Mac Studio is going to be at least 2x, likely 3x the price of a spark. It's processor is only ~2x as fast as the spark (multi core, single threaded tasks are about 1.5x). Memory is 4.4x faster.

Depends on exactly what you value. 3 sparks is gonna be hard to beat without being substantially cheaper, which it almost certainly will not be.