… So long as you have ample memory, a decent enough token speed, privacy, and a stable enough environment for running all your prompts, that's all you really need from a local AI deployment. It's why AMD isn't particularly worried just yet with its own Ryzen AI offerings. …
… Apple's M-series chips don’t separate VRAM from system RAM. The CPU and GPU can access the same unified memory pool, and local LLM runtimes can use that pool without copying weights across PCIe. On a maxed-out Mac Studio with M3 Ultra , that means up to 512GB the GPU can use directly. …
… With the 32GB VRAM ceiling seemingly not going anywhere anytime soon, unified memory machines are the true workhorses for local AI. And if bandwidth remains the primary constraint, then the best way to deal with that is to use a mixture of experts model. …
… The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 , codename Strix Halo, packs 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads alongside a 40-CU RDNA 3.5 iGPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, with as much as 96GB of that addressable as VRAM. …
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