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Is it silly to add a 5090 instead of getting a M5 Ultra Mac Studio?

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Title - prices are practically the same, the mac studio preorder was $5099+tax and adding a second 5090 into my system is about the same with the card and a bigger psu (current system has 1000w). Sucks but it is what it is. The Mac Studio is 96GB M5 Ultra, system is 270k/Z890 Aorus Master/64GB. My…

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  1. 2026-09-12 12:01 · r/LocalLLM
    Is it silly to add a 5090 instead of getting a M5 Ultra Mac Studio?

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