RTX 5090 vs Apple Silicon for local LLMs: the memory gap nobody expected
The RTX 5090's 32GB VRAM can't hold the biggest local LLMs, while Apple Silicon's unified memory lets a Mac Studio run DeepSeek R1 671B — at a fraction of the power draw.
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The RTX 5090's 32GB VRAM can't hold the biggest local LLMs, while Apple Silicon's unified memory lets a Mac Studio run DeepSeek R1 671B — at a fraction of the power draw.