My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it
…A Mac Mini with M4 Pro tops out at 64GB, double the 5090, in a tiny machine. You can even find M1 Max-based machines with 64GB of RAM for around $1000…
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