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I mean, a 4090 would appear to cost $2000, and came out a year ago; it has about 70bn transistors. The M1 could be had for $700 for a desktop, $1000 as part of a laptop, came out three years ago, and has 16bn transistors, some of which are CPU.

An M3 Ultra might be a more reasonable comparison for the 4090.




A very fair comment. I use an M2 MBP with max specs. It’s very powerful, but the Nvidia card draws a whole lot more power…


24GB cards weren't always $2000. I've seen people on this very forum [1] who brought two 3090s for just $600 each.

Agree the prices are crazy right now, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37438847




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