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by int_19h 1153 days ago
The GPU isn't actually used by llama.cpp. What makes it that much faster is that the workload, either on CPU or on GPU, is very memory-intensive, so it benefits greatly from fast RAM. And Apple is using DDR5 running at very high clock speeds for this shared memory stuff.

It's still noticeably slower than GPU, though.