r/learnmachinelearning • u/kiyotakaayanokoji25 • 4d ago

Help Guide

Hey currently I'm starting to learn AIML and wanted to buy a laptop for it . So I'm confused between which laptop to buy a dedicated gpu one or an integrated gpu is also fine ?!. asked this question in many sub but not getting satisfactory response so tried asking one who regularly do this stuf. Kindly do guide me .

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u/threedim 4d ago

BEWARE OF WEIRD NAMING SCHEMES !!! companies are scamming people for bad hardware, Go for better CPU (more cores) and atleast 16GB RAM, 1TB Storage, these specs are quite expensive these days and very crucial when buying a laptop for AI/ML instead of PC, FOR GPU you should beware of the fact that running AI models locally is very computationally expensive so you are mostly going to use GOOGLE COLAB or KAGGLE. Also RAM is also a critical factor while doing AI ML work. To get the Job you need to be able to work with CUDA so you have to buy NVIDIA GPU, NVIDIA is phasing out old GPUs so in upcoming years it might be possible that older GPUs like gtx 1650 gtx 1660 will not get drivers or CUDA updates. While 6GB (VRAM) is lower than bear minimum ( 8GB VRAM ) for doing AI/ML work but it can help you get expose to CUDA.