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!
I’m looking for something that also does path tracing well if I’m going to drop that kind of coin. It sounds like this chip can be on par with a 4070 for rasterization, but it only gets a benchmark score of 495 for Blender rendering compared to 3110 for even a RTX 4060. RDNA 5 with true RTX cores should drastically change the situation of chips like this, though.
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!
Nice, though $3k is still getting pretty pricey. I see mini PCs with a AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 and 96GB of RAM can be had for $2k, or even $1k with less RAM: https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen™-ai-max-395-evo-x2-ai-mini-pc?variant=f6803a96-b3c4-40e1-a0d2-2cf2f4e193ff
I’m looking for something that also does path tracing well if I’m going to drop that kind of coin. It sounds like this chip can be on par with a 4070 for rasterization, but it only gets a benchmark score of 495 for Blender rendering compared to 3110 for even a RTX 4060. RDNA 5 with true RTX cores should drastically change the situation of chips like this, though.
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 too, if that fits your workflow.