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(novice question) 64gb is pure RAM? I thought Apple Silicon was efficient at paging SSD as memory storage - how important is RAM if you've got a fast SSD?
by slimebot80 1y ago
(novice question)
64gb is pure RAM? I thought Apple Silicon was efficient at paging SSD as memory storage - how important is RAM if you've got a fast SSD?
- nicce 1y agoMemory speed is the most important factor with LLMs and SSD is very slow when compared to RAM.
- ethan_smith 1y agoWhile Apple Silicon's memory compression and SSD swapping are efficient, RAM access is still ~100x faster than SSD, so sufficient physical RAM remains crucial for memory-intensive workloads like running large LLMs.