> Well, assuming you can actually buy any of these, anyway. The M1 Ultra might win "by default" by simply being purchasable at all unlike pretty much every other GPU :/
Can we stop it with the meme that these GPUs are unobtainable? Yes, they are still overpriced compared to their supposed original prices and they'll likely never return to that price given that the base prices of manufacturing, materials and such have increased for multiple reasons.
But stock has been generally available for many months now and it's possible to get them as long as you can afford them.
I started using Linux around 2003 when I got into college and when I got my first laptop and at the time the most popular distros were Red Hat (transitioning into Fedora Core which had just come out), Mandrake, Suse, Debian, maybe a few others.
Most of these mainstream distros (except maybe Debian) were starting to go in the direction of trying to become more user friendly. They had graphical installers rather then text based and they had all sorts of new graphical utilities for configuration and made various attempts at trying to automate and sort much of that configuration for you.
Except that they were mostly terrible at that in those early years of these attempts. So the first thing I actually ever tried to install on that laptop was RedHat 9 and I couldn't get my USB DSL modem to work as well as other specific laptop hardware features.
Then some folks I knew were using Slackware and told me to try it and there were guides on how to make that modem work with it so I started using it.
And very quickly I realized that while on Slackware you had to generally do a lot more configuration in text files and through CLI utilities, it generally yielded the results you expected and things didn't magically happen.
Meanwhile in those other distros that were trying to become more user friendly, you had all of these crazy graphical utilities that worked half of the time, sometimes mangled configuration files (the Suse ones were specially amazing at producing completely broken xorg.conf files) or just simply didn't work.
I learned a lot about all of those because as I became more proficient with Linux I kinda became the goto guy in my college for a lot of people who are also new to Linux to help them sort out their Linux setups, specially on laptops.
A few years later Ubuntu came along, kinda trying to do the same thing those other distros were doing but using mostly existing UI utilities (rather than creating new ones) and just made sure they actually worked.
I ended up transitioning to Ubuntu (after a couple of years of Gentoo and Arch) and never looked back until I moved to macs in the early 2010s.
Can we stop it with the meme that these GPUs are unobtainable? Yes, they are still overpriced compared to their supposed original prices and they'll likely never return to that price given that the base prices of manufacturing, materials and such have increased for multiple reasons.
But stock has been generally available for many months now and it's possible to get them as long as you can afford them.