I haven’t tried using Macs. I’ve heard their GPUs are kinda slow (compared to high-end discrete GPU), but have unified memory so you can run very large models.
I bought 3090s because I needed to train a classifier. It took months of training 24/7, so it was cheaper to buy 3090s than pay for cloud compute time. A 3090 is probably overkill for just running SDXL (unless they release an even larger model in the future).
I haven’t tried using Macs. I’ve heard their GPUs are kinda slow (compared to high-end discrete GPU), but have unified memory so you can run very large models.
I bought 3090s because I needed to train a classifier. It took months of training 24/7, so it was cheaper to buy 3090s than pay for cloud compute time. A 3090 is probably overkill for just running SDXL (unless they release an even larger model in the future).