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M3 pro for Machine Learning/ Deep learning? [D] (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by deadengineerssociety@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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Considering switching to Mac from windows, is it honestly worth it? I mean I don't plan on running heavy load models, but hopefully decent enough for it to handle midsize models.

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[–] igorsusmelj@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I would not recommend it unless you only focus on smaller models and small experiments. Biggest advantage is the huge amount of memory available. But the bottleneck is memory bandwidth.

We did some tests out of fun (as there were not many benchmarks available). You can find the results here:

https://www.lightly.ai/post/apple-m1-and-m2-performance-for-training-ssl-models

Support got better but back when we did the tests there was still no proper half precision support and also torch.compile wouldn’t work. There is hope that the software support will catch up. I’m curious to see other results. We definitely need more benchmarks :)