Finally, a reason to own a 128GB Strix Halo or GB10 device. Or a reason to consider the new Mac Studio.
I have a Strix Halo and dual 32GB GPUs in my desktop, and the latter is pretty much always better for running local models because it's quite a bit faster due to higher memory bandwidth. There simply haven't been any models that are better than Qwen 27B or Gemma 31B, which run comfortably in 64GB with big context.
And, MoE should make it run at a close to usable speed.
how much performance (tok/s) can you expect from 128GB Strix Halo? assuming this model will be released with FP8
also can you use it for fine tuning?
That’s only true if you think AI is the only reason to own a powerful and efficient server. Mine does plenty of traditional server stuff too.