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Probably pretty much exclusively for machine learning applications, though I wonder if it's even still a good choice to use consumer gaming GPUs at these prices. But IDK what a developer would buy instead for home use, I can't quite imagine that something like a Raspberry Pi AI hat has a better performance/cost ratio.
For local inference these days it’s basically all AS since it’s the only consumer hardware that can replace $20-80k server builds, but if you mean ML/AI developers specifically, they still prefer discrete GPUs for local training (on personal budgets: either recent consumer gaming/professional cards or older AI cards).
What does "AS" abbreviate here?
My bad, Apple Silicon, the private local ML “meta” as of ~Nov’25 (and last I saw) was RDMA clusters of M3 Ultras that could scale up to 3.6TB VRAM (a lot)