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angoragoatstoday at 1:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Except the RTX 6000 will run circles around the Mac studio in just about every way. Memory bandwidth is literally the only spec where Apple is competitive, and while high memory bandwidth is necessary for LLMs to perform well, many people strangely don't understand that memory bandwidth alone is not sufficient.


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speedgoosetoday at 4:24 PM

Energy efficiency is in another league with the Mac Studio for local workloads.

I can run agents using deepseek v4 flash or Qwen 3.8 on my m3 ultra and it will be lukewarm and the fan will eventually start blowing softly.

F7F7F7today at 1:46 PM

It better because you’ll need a few of them to run some larger models (I’ll be just as vague citing which models).