Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
Nope, still running single core. Probably runs worse than on older CPUs which were optimized for single core clock speed.
IPC in modern CPUs is up compared to 2007 or whatever though
Remortgage your house now.
Can I load all of GTA 6 into RAM?
Making a RAM drive to load a few minutes of rolling video game footage so it isn’t constantly writing to my SSD or HDD was one of the most “the future is now” things I’ve done lately… and it’s not a new concept, I just never considered it before.
Basically Apple will be building the perfect computers to run local LLMs.
One can only hope that it totally breaks the AI/LLM at industrial scale, so businesses can run their own AI systems with their own data sets.
No more of this fucking datacanter horseshit.
It’s pretty obvious at this point that the data centers are for storing massive amounts of video.
Local LLMs are cool but also pretty slow compared to cloud. If you have to wait half an hour for your Feature while coding you might still opt for the cloud agent.
Yes, they are slower. However, I think that the pricing we’re going to see from the cloud providers might be enough to deter quite a lot of people. At least I hope so:
The fact that we’re already used to blazing speed generation kinda sucks. Local models are a much more sustainable way of unlocking the benefits of LLMs than giant ecosystem- and community-destroying data centers.
I also hope that don’t get me wrong, but as I said: Waiting for the LLM agent to finish coding is currently a bottleneck in software development, they don’t pay high salaries for watching the AI code, they will prefer faster agents even if they are expensive, because they are not only paying the AI Company but also the software engineer overseeing them.
I think that is only going to last as long as the AI providers are willing to operate at a loss. The issue is even with the newer higher price points rolled out this year, they’re still losing money. The slower AI machines may be the answer once the REAL profit earning price for the use tokens hits the market. I forsee lots of alternative work going on while the small LLM’s are cooking the data. We will have to see once these machines start to roll out, what the use for LLMs will be and how it’s applied. I am hopeful.
Have you tried running a local model on a M series Mac?
Yes ofc I ran Gemma 4 for example, but compare that to the speed of Gemini in the cloud the difference is massive.
How much RAM do you have and which version of the model did you run?
Local LLMs can be just as fast as long your device clears the requirements. If you noticed a huge difference, there’s a really good chance that you tried to use a model that requires more RAM than you have
I ran Gemma 4 31 B quantized so it fits in my RAM. The decoding speed was decent, but if you look at the newest models for example Gemini flash 3.5 they have a decoding speed of 280 token per second, they generate an entire page before my Mac locally generates a sentence.
That is a bit too much for your hardware, even the Q4_0. You needed a smaller version (26B likely would suit you better. It would be faster and is a MoE)
Actually they can be much faster given sufficient VRAM and not a lot of concurrent users.
A Mac with 1.5TB RAM would be expensive at the best of times. In 2027/2028 it might approach $50k, or even get into 6 figures.
With the Apple tax, I’d expect 1.5TB to run you closer to $200k. Enterprise prices are that high today, so if trends continue it’s going to be bad
Big household name gaming companies have devs who burn 20k in tokens A MONTH.
A 50k machine that can run a model locally with 0 monthly costs will pay for itself in 3 months.
It shouldn’t be, if Apple gets that import exemption from the Chinese memory manufacturer (ChangXin Memory Technologies) they are asking for. Apparently they’re already testing the CXMT chips to put in the phones sold in China, freeing up the orders/stock they’ve sourced already from “safe” sources, to go into their products sold in the rest of the world.
Smart move if they can finagle it.
Hopefully they can get it through before the fuckwits in the administration understand how effectively it can threaten the big AI players that Trump seems to be sniffing around.
You absolutely BET that he will scuttle any trade deal if it interferes with his own personal agenda WRT his investments in AI.
He’s that much a greedy cunt.
apple sells ram at double market rate in the cheapest of times
Or the more likely option that they get the cheaper ram from China and then double dip and use the ram scarcity excuse for higher prices