What are those NLP tasks, if I may ask? (I was thinking above about using it as a chatbot like ChatGPT or Bard, which currently seems the only application for end-users.)
if you use commodity GPUs, sure. if you use TPUs (which Apple is already building into their chips) the efficiency improvements are massive. seriously look at some Coral Edge TPUs and what they can do at power levels completely unheard of for GPUs. then look at how much faster M1/M2 Macs are than normal desktop GPUs for machine learning tasks because they have an onboard accelerator
apple is known to care a lot about stuff like this. like, a lot. they are pedantic as heck