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LLM evaluation on GPU and CPU is memory bandwidth constrained. The highest-end Apple machines are good for this because they have ~500GBps high memory bandwidth and up to ~128GB, not just because they can share that memory with the GPU (which any iGPU does). Most consumer machines are limited to 2xDDR5 channels (~50GBps).


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