by garbagecoder on 12/27/2021, 10:08:04 PM
I have been playing around with the M1 Pro for compute by making some toys that take advantage of its hardware directly, mostly in arm64 asm and c. I won’t pretend I was able to get every cycle optimized—I’m still working on the code—but it’s great so far.
by mark_l_watson on 12/27/2021, 9:19:04 PM
I have a M1 MacBook Pro, and it is alright for running TensorFlow.
I have two conda environments set up, tf (CPU), and tf_m1 (Apple silicon GPU, CPU).
Some of my TF models, mainly multiple rower models have to run on just the CPU, but most of my models use the GPU.
by PaulHoule on 12/27/2021, 7:53:09 PM
What I have read is that the M1 is fast and efficient to train small models w/ Tensorflow but NVIDIA wins for big models.
I’m contemplating the M1 mac mini as a ML machine and was wondering what experience others have had with it.