No, they really can't. There is no market for Apple Silicon GPU compute, largely because the fastest Mac GPUs you can buy are arguably a waste of TSMC's silicon.
replyLook at it like this: a maxed-out M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at $6,799, and the iGPU benchmarks similar to an $800 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. That's a 3nm SOC getting outperformed by a 5nm dGPU; Apple Silicon is years behind Nvidia's consumer offerings, and that's before we even compare with datacenter-grade DGX/Instinct GPUs.
The combination of "maxed-out" and "starts" is kind of confusing, but I found the machine you're talking about - M5 Ultra with the 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 96 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD.
replyIt has 6x the RAM, 2x the memory bandwidth and looks like it totally outclasses the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. I did some searching and it looks like a close comparison would be the older M3 Ultra Mac Studio, although again, with a lot less RAM.
OP's claim was that the GPU could be rented out. I'm calling it like it is, there is no market demand for that anywhere in the world.
replyDon't take my word for it; go look at the number of datacenters that offer MLX or MPS inference. It isn't a market, nobody wants these GPUs even during a RAM shortage.
sorry $1300 for that 4070 now
replySounds like Elon Musk's plan of Tesla owners selling idle compute on their cars.
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