Hardware Prices Won't Recover: Choosing LLM Inference Hardware
nemuro87 · reddit · 2026-08-26
Discussing the view that hardware prices will never return to previous lows, this post evaluates the cost-effectiveness of different LLM inference setups. It compares a $10k investment between a 256GB Mac Studio, dual RTX 4090s, and upcoming unified memory solutions. The release of devices like the M5 Ultra shifts the calculus for high-bandwidth, high-VRAM inference hardware.
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