Hardware

I have a 3990X and a M3 Max (full chip), but I don’t have a M2 Ultra to compare.

The 3990X with a 4090 obliterate the M3 Max, but I’m not really sure there was any question there. Even a with a Titan RTX, it’s no competition. This being said, the MBP w/ that M3 is good enough for nearly anything, and far more efficient than an 3990X running full tilt. I would imagine that an M3 Ultra would be quite powerful, but I personally have no interest in a Mac desktop.

I don’t think I’ll be getting the 7000 series for work for three reasons.

1. I feel incredibly burned by AMD for investing heavily in the TR4 space. We were promised more, and purchased extra high end blocks early because of that.

2. The 3990X has been troublesome in ways that never approach RMA, or the cost of being down that system, but just enough to drive me insane, from month one through all the years to now.

3. Anything the full chip M3 Max MBP can’t run, the 3990X can still do, and anything that the 3990X is too unstable to do can get fed to a sidelined sapphire rapids build.

I do think I’ll be getting a 7955WX and a WRX90 to play with. There’s something super dumb niche things I want to try, that I wasn’t able to fully pull off with a W3435X.