Can you render Gaussian Splats on Intel Macs?

I don't think splats will render on Intel Macs but wanted to see if I'm wrong.

I'm using GSBake with a PLY file which works fine. When I pull that into Solaris, the splat doesn't render the reconstructed scene with XPU.

I think its b/c the splat is processed on the GPU and Karma XPU on an Intel Mac uses the Embree CPU code?

I need to switch to some Threadripper / 5080 / etc workstation to solve all of these problems but haven't seriously started thinking about it yet. Have any other longtime Mac users here made switch recently? I'd love to know how it went for you.

also, Xuan (ElephantVFX) has a nice YT on splats here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC1Hf-r2gAI