Hardware Comparisons

Comparisons exist because the hardest buying decisions are rarely “is this good?” They are “is the more expensive one worth it?”

Each comparison here puts two options side by side on the specifications that actually decide the outcome, then answers the question directly: which should you buy, and under what circumstances would the answer change?

How we structure a comparison

1. The quick answer — stated first, before the reasoning
2. The specifications side by side, restricted to what changes the decision
3. Workload-by-workload analysis — the winner is frequently different for language models than for image generation
4. Who should buy A, and who should buy B — named clearly
5. When neither is the right answer, which is more often than you would expect