This is 100% the truth, and I am really puzzled to see people push Strix Halo so much for local inference. For about $1200 more you can just build a DDR5 + 5090

This is 100% the truth, and I am really puzzled to see people push Strix Halo so much for local inference. For about $1200 more you can just build a DDR5 + 5090 machine that will crush a Strix Halo with just about every MoE model (equal decode and 10-20x faster prefill for large, and huge gaps for any MoE that fits in 32GB VRAM). I'd have a lot more confidence in reselling a 5090 in the future than a Strix Halo machine, too.