tinygrad
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8recommend
1warn against
Nov 19, 2025first mention
Aug 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“tinygrad.org is probably the best punk in this regard”
“I'm a firm supporter of local inference though so good on them for doing something”
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“At least geohot knows what he is doing.”
“Absolutely amazing framework and you should absolutely check them out.”
“Woah, this is exciting.”
Caveats and dissent
“I know George has pushed this idea for years now”
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“I know it just works well with tinygrad.”
“tinygrad.org is probably the best punk in this regard”
“this is just https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad”
“I'm a firm supporter of local inference though so good on them for doing something”
“At least geohot knows what he is doing.”
“Be surprised if there’s more developments like the tinygrad driver”
“Absolutely amazing framework and you should absolutely check them out.”
based on your card, it should be using a decent bit of the 600w or so passed through the new 16-pin connector. goes without saying, a proper PSU (doesn't have to be ATX, but at least 750W to be on the safer side) is a must. for thunderbolt enclosures, consider going through the list - https://egpu.io/best-egpu-buyers-guide/#tb3-enclosures zero idea about mac support so YMMV.
“now runs tinygrad on eGPUs”
“From what I understand, only works with Tinygrad.”
You can buy a cheap GPU enclosure for about 100$ off ali express. Takes a standard PSU. However, Mac Minis don't have occulink. So you might be a bit limited by whatever USB C can do. Now if Intel can get there Arc drivers in order we'll see some real budget fun. https://www.newegg.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-32gb-graphics-card/p/N82E16814883008?item=N82E16814883008 32 GB of VRAM for 1000$. Plus a 500$ Mac Mini.
“Woah, this is exciting.”
announcement tweet: https://xcancel.com/__tinygrad__/status/2039213719155310736
“so I'm excited to see it work. Rooting for the guy.”
“While low line count is a guiding light of this project”
“look at this: https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/codegen/simplify.py”
“He was able to run nvidia gpu on mac via thunderbolt with tinygrad.”
“When we can reproduce a common set of papers on 1 NVIDIA GPU 2x faster than PyTorch.”
“it's part of his B2B company, tinygrad, that sells AMD systems and is VC funded”
“I know George has pushed this idea for years now”
“tinygrad’s small set of operations and laziness made it easy to implement.”
https://social.treehouse.systems/@janne/115509948515319437 nvidia on a 2023 Mac Pro running linux :p
“https://tinygrad.org/ is the only viable alternative to CUDA that I have seen popup in the past few years.”