For $1k more you can have the same thing from nvidia in their dgx spark. You can use high speed fabric to connect two of ‘em and run 405b parameter models, or so they claim.
Point being that’s some pretty big models in the 3-4k range, and massive models for less than 10k. The nvidia one supports comfyui so I assume it supports cuda.
It ain’t cheap and AI has soooo many negatives, but… it does have some positives and local LLMs mitigate some of the minuses, so I hope this helps!
And stick a regular Nvidia GPU on it. Or an AMD one.
That’d give you the option to batch renders across the integrated and discrete GPUs, if such a thing fits your workflow. Or to use one GPU while the other is busy. And if a particular model doesn’t play nice with AMD, it’d give you the option to use Nvidia + CPU offloading very effectively.
It’s only PCIe 4.0 X4, but that’s enough for most GPUs.
TBH I’m considering exactly this, hanging my venerable 3090 off the board. As I’m feeling the FOMO crunch of all hardware getting so expensive. And $2K for 16 cores with 128GB of ridiculously fast quad channel RAM is not bad, even JUST as a CPU.
Can run decent size models with one of these: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-s1-max-mini-pc
For $1k more you can have the same thing from nvidia in their dgx spark. You can use high speed fabric to connect two of ‘em and run 405b parameter models, or so they claim.
Point being that’s some pretty big models in the 3-4k range, and massive models for less than 10k. The nvidia one supports comfyui so I assume it supports cuda.
It ain’t cheap and AI has soooo many negatives, but… it does have some positives and local LLMs mitigate some of the minuses, so I hope this helps!
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FYI you can buy this this: https://frame.work/products/framework-desktop-mainboard-amd-ryzen-ai-max-300-series?v=FRAFMK0002
And stick a regular Nvidia GPU on it. Or an AMD one.
That’d give you the option to batch renders across the integrated and discrete GPUs, if such a thing fits your workflow. Or to use one GPU while the other is busy. And if a particular model doesn’t play nice with AMD, it’d give you the option to use Nvidia + CPU offloading very effectively.
It’s only PCIe 4.0 X4, but that’s enough for most GPUs.
TBH I’m considering exactly this, hanging my venerable 3090 off the board. As I’m feeling the FOMO crunch of all hardware getting so expensive. And $2K for 16 cores with 128GB of ridiculously fast quad channel RAM is not bad, even JUST as a CPU.