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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
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That's interesting.
How much ram did it use while running?
If you used a GPU, how much does it cost in today's prices?
It's a MacBook Pro. 36GB of ram. I am sure Macs have some kind of gpu and I understand it somehow combines GPU ram with system ram, but I don't really know Mac hardware very well.
It's beefy for a laptop, but the desktop I built for myself several years ago had 32 GB of ram and a GTX 1660, so I'm guessing they are similar in capability. I gave that to my daughter, so I can't run a comparison right now.
EDIT: After doing just a bit of research, I've learned the unified memory architecture that Macs use, while not ideal for many purposes, is actually a big advantage for running larger inference models. So it's possible that this particular model wouldn't run at all on my Linux box or would run much slower because the full model wouldn't fit in the 6GB of VRAM and create a lot of memory thrashing.
Yup, you want memory accessible to the GPU for local AI. AMD Strix Point and Mac devices are popular options. CPU can run LLMs but very slowly. I've got 32 GB of RAM and 8 VRAM and it's borderline useless for models that don't fit in the VRAM.