I have an M1 but I first remember thinking it was very impressive that my Mac could run these AI models…

…until I tried the same on my RTX 4070 and it made my Mac look like a joke.

For the 30 seconds my Mac would have taken for 1 result, which will probably need revising, the RTX would give me 30 results.

However the RTX was half the cost of my Mac, so it’s not a good investment if I just want to generate some images. I’d rather pay for the cloud if I didn’t have the RTX already.