High End GPUs for Stable Diffusion - Nvidia RTX and Apple M3 - Best Graphics Cards in Local Installs

RTX A5000 is this a good option? Saw good one on ebay

SD on Apple M3 on 64GB or 128GB RAM would be great

Unified memory is amazing. I get bigger images on M1 16GB and cannot have them on RTX 2060 on my gaming laptop, besides the RTX 2060 having faster processors than the 2020 M1 GPU.
Those 64 or 128GB are insane, considering that all that memory can be used on the GPU as well.

xformers downloading speed is 40kb/s for me and it is so irritating. any other way to install it?

I think it would be interesting to see up to date benchmarks of the A770 16gb, and the M3 not to mention the M1 or M2 series. If the software has caught up to the point that AMD, Intel and Apple are able to do Stable Diffusion far better than they were it would also apply to their earlier models. The problem with the Macbook Pro is you are paying for an entirely useless screen, keyboard, trackpad and terrible cooling. If you can wait, you are going to get more power for less money from an M3 Mac Studio or an M3 Mac Mini. And of course, depending on how the other chips now perform that might not even be worth it.

I know even Marquess Brownlee said he wasn't going to move on from his M1 Mac to the M3 as he just doesn't need it for on the move editing. That's kind of bonkers to me, but it's an admirable level of frugality from a man whose time is clearly worth a lot. Point being, I've not seen even the massive fans of Macs suggest it's worth upgrading from one to the other yet.

Given the leaps with MS Olive and AMD/Intel I do wonder if the hardware is more capable than the dominance of Nvidia would suggest and part of the problem has been that SD etc just weren't coded for the AMD/Intel hardware since it doesn't exist on any meaningful level yet (I think AMD is something like 11% of the Steam survey?). It may be no different to my ZX Spectrum in the 80s - by the end of it there were games with voice samples, the colour clashing was solved and graphics were greatly improved, all in the same 48/64K computers just because they learned how to write efficient code on the same silicon.

😲 80GB GPU's! That's some very serious computational hardware!

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I heard Nvidia shipped the majority of RTX 4090 s to China so they could be bought and sold by China's subsidiary companies since they are being banned, and chips on those 4090 s will be dismantled/removed to be used in different way/different components to get aroused nd the ban. That's where they all went.