alt Hacker NewsThat's super handy, thanks for sharing the link. Way more useful than the web site this post is about, to be honest.
It looks like I can run more local LLMs than I thought, I'll have to give some of those a try. I have decent memory (96GB) but my M2 Max MBP is a few years old now and I figured it would be getting inadequate for the latest models. But llmfit thinks it's a really good fit for the vast majority of them. Interesting!
Your hardware can run a good range of local models, but keep an eye on quantization since 4-bit models trade off some accuracy, especially with longer context or tougher tasks. Thermal throttling is also an issue, since even Apple silicon can slow down when all cores are pushed for a while, so sustained performance might not match benchmark numbers.