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I've been looking at the potential for Apple to make really interesting LLM hardware. Their unified memory model could be a real game-changer because NVidia rea
by jmyeet 2y ago
I've been looking at the potential for Apple to make really interesting LLM hardware. Their unified memory model could be a real game-changer because NVidia really forces market segmentation by limiting memory.
It's worth adding the M3 Ultra has 819GB/s memory bandwidth [1]. For comparison the RTX 5090 is 1800GB/s [2]. That's still less but the M4 Mac Minis have 120-300GB/s and this will limit token throughput so 819GB/s is a vast improvement.
For $9500 you can buy a M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory. I think that has massive potential.
[1]: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/ https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/
[2]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-series/rtx-5090/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie...