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abhikul0yesterday at 2:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

Mac has unified memory, so 36GB is 36GB for everything- gpu,cpu.


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zozbot234yesterday at 2:39 PM

CPU-MoE still helps with mmap. Should not overly hurt token-gen speed on the Mac since the CPU has access to most (though not all) of the unified memory bandwidth, which is the bottleneck.

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mhitzayesterday at 2:32 PM

For sure I was running on autopilot with that reply. Though in Q4 I would expect it to fit, as 24B-A4B Gemma model without CPU offloading got up to 18GB of VRAM usage