Same Budget: 256GB Mac or Two DGX Sparks for 70B Inference?
Whyme-__- · reddit · 2026-08-27
The poster weighs a 256GB unified-memory Mac against two NVIDIA DGX Sparks at roughly the same cost, for serving Qwen 70B / Nemotron 70B via vLLM (or MLX on Mac) with concurrent multi-user inference inside Docker containers, and asks for real-world pros and cons of each platform.
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