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I realize that MacOS users will stay with Mac for a long time, but I wonder how much of a leap a TR+4090 rig is versus an Apple Silicon Mac Studio on M2 Max, power consumption be damned, on apps that are common to both MacOS and Windows.
Cuz I still kinda think that AMD won the M2 (and now M3) keynotes despite Threadripper racking up way more wattage.
Honestly, it looks like Apple is pretty much conceding the upper end of the professional market. So a TR+High end NVIDIA GPU would likely obliterate a Mac Pro/Studio on those workloads, perhaps some very specific video encoding workflows may have an edge on AS.
This may not age well if local llm based apps become more common place - which I suspect they may.
Can you run a 3rd party GPU with MacOS?
On the cheesegrater AS macs you explicitly couldn’t, despite the ample pcie slots