… For the record, I'm not saying that you should go out and buy an Apple Silicon-based machine for local AI, nor am I saying that it's the only way to run local AI. …
… Related We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't Silicon alone can only do so much without software bearing the load Software compatibility is still the decisive variable in local AI For home labbers and those who run local AI, the gap between AM… …
… The same thing AI PCs have promised, with much more powerful silicon The RTX Spark is one of the most ambitious laptop platforms unveiled in years, and that needs to be acknowledged before anything else. …
… FSR 4.1 uses AI upscaling, similar to Nvidia's DLSS, offering a notable leap in visuals and frame rates over FSR 3. AMD has revealed that it's bringing its FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 FSR AI upscaling technology to its older graphics cards. …
… This is what MoE models have achieved: bringing local AI to hardware that most users can afford. Related My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it They don't win on speed, but they do win on being able to run them in the first place. …
… Apple Silicon's unified memory architecture means the CPU and GPU share the same high-bandwidth memory pool. A MacBook with 16GB or 32GB of unified RAM can load and run LLMs at speeds that rival or exceed systems with discrete GPUs, making Apple laptops surprisingly competitive for local AI. …
… To be fair, the chip held up its end on Linux through two layers of translation, so if Microsoft holds up its end too, this is the biggest shake-up Windows laptops have had since Apple Silicon forced the industry to take Arm seriously.
… The Apple TV makes a compelling case for being the best streaming box on the market. Apple's A-series chips are massively overpowered for media playback, which means the interface remains instant and responsive no matter what you throw at it. …
… See at Ollama Related These 4 tools paired with Ollama gave me a private AI workflow that actually matters Privacy-first AI that integrates naturally into tools I already use NVIDIA Broadcast is how you sound better than your mic It turns your GPU into an audio engineer Our GPUs are also capable of… …
… Apple Silicon in particular has no tensor cores, so feeding it a long context and waiting before the first token appears can be painful when compared to a CUDA GPU doing the same work. …