The M7 will the much better for local LLM inference. If you can afford the memory.
replyOh interesting, any more info on "how"?
replyWith a three point plan, I suspect: memory bandwidth, memory bandwidth, and more memory bandwidth.
replyHow useful would that actually be for local inference, when the bottleneck is, essentially, always memory size? I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 64 to 128 GB. That ought to be enough for almost all uses, like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at a decent quant.
replyMemory size is a bottleneck, but I have found that speed is very important for getting actual work done. Running a big model is great, but if you're getting 10t/s you're going to be spending a lot of time waiting.
reply> I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 64 to 128 GB. That ought to be enough for almost all uses
replyThis will be the “640kb ought to be enough for anybody” Bill Gates quote of our era.
You can order a 128GB MacBook Pro today -- though point taken, memory size probably does belong in the three part plan :-)
replyPlus with more low precision compute… to help with the memory bandwidth!
replyMore ASIC Mat-Mul too.
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