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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by sgt on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:17PM (#43271745)
So the M3 Ultra is amazing value then. And from what I could tell, an equivalent AMD Epyc would still be so constrained that we're talking 4-5 tokens/s. Is this a fair assumption?
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by Aeolun on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:18PM (#43273464)
The Epyc would only set you back $2000 though, so it’s only a slightly worse price/return.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:01PM (#43275428)
No. The advantage of Epic is you get 12 channels of ram so it should be ~6x faster than a consumer cpu.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by sgt on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:27AM (#43277040)
I realize that but apparently people are still getting very low tokens/sec on Epyc. Why is that? I don't get it, as on paper it should be fast.
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