macORnvidia OP t1_iv8ssle wrote on November 6, 2022 at 4:09 AM

Reply to comment by arhetorical in bought legion 7i: Intel i9 12th gen, rtx 3080 ti 16 gb vram, 32 GB ddr5. need some confirmation bias (or opposite) to understand if I made the right decision by macORnvidia

>An external GPU will just make your setup less portable without actually giving you the performance of a workstation

Can you please elaborate?

Also, as for training, I get it, I can't really train deep learning models but how about optimizing machine learning models using pyCUDA?

arhetorical t1_ivb2sl1 wrote on November 6, 2022 at 5:41 PM

I haven't tried doing that but if it's a similar resource requirement to prototyping (like if you'll be working with a pretrained model, not training one) then it should be fine. Again though, the biggest factor is whether you like it and if it works for you - since you bought a laptop instead of a workstation, you must have had a very good reason for needing one and none of us can answer that question for you. If you're not training, as long as your stuff fits in memory the specs don't matter that much.