The cloud is staggeringly more expensive than building your own workstation. Like a couple of weeks of on-demand GPU instances on AWS Virginia costs about as much as a machine with 2 RTX 2080 cards in it that will stay performant for at least a couple years.
But coming back to the Mac Pro, unless you need Apple-specific software, the same is true compared to Ryzen/ThreadRipper + NVidia cards. The Mac costs 2-3x as much while delivering less performance.
At least the cloud can scale horizontally, the Mac Pro is just slow and inefficient.
But coming back to the Mac Pro, unless you need Apple-specific software, the same is true compared to Ryzen/ThreadRipper + NVidia cards. The Mac costs 2-3x as much while delivering less performance.
At least the cloud can scale horizontally, the Mac Pro is just slow and inefficient.