Posted by LabsLucas 3 hours ago
The differences are basically, sparks require ARM and sparks allow interconnects; so if you do have dreams of electric sheep to chain them together, you're not gonna get the AMD halo units.
But if you just want to putz around with a dev machine and do other things, not sure you'd want a spark.
Which is a huge problem? Even using 2x memory controllers in typical consumer motherboard can make system very unstable.
With a desktop your system memory is slow and your fast graphics memory is limited in size.
To me it seems like the best bang for your buck in the BYO desktop PC space is to get a board with dual PCIe slots then find some old generation 24GB GPUs like RTX 3090.
But you’re not getting access to more than 48GB of fast memory without something similar to this or a Mac Studio.
"The Apple Silicon Mac Studios outperform the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 machines"
The framework desktop even has a usable PCIe 4x slot available if you put the board in a different case. They sell the 128GB board on its own for $3150.