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Here’s an interesting comparison. You rely on NVidia for the heavy-lift part in either case, but Intel vs. AMD likely shapes the overall system price/performance. Trying to think about the key variables in the design space here.
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I mean AMD CPUs for the general compute part... I’m assuming Nvidia is the only game in town for the AI part.
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Sadly no one does deep learning with AMD GPUs. ROCm is kind of a joke. I'm hoping vulkan API for compute will pick up with time but right now it's research quality code at best. Ryzen are great CPUs for CPU heavy tasks though.
I think I last speced and bought a desktop in 2006. Never built one myself. Considering it as a project this year, and since I’m not a gamer, trying to think of other kinds of workload to solve for. Running deep learning apps at home seems to be an interesting thing to try.
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pcpartpicker.com is helpful for any part collision issues... but this stuff is pretty plug and play at this point; you can catch up pretty quickly on the slick youtube pc build channels... found this interesting: timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/whi
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Yeah AMD is great for the compute. Much better $/performance and they don't lock away useful features (PCIe lanes, etc.) to server models.
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