[thehamkercat]

The memory bandwidth on this thing is absolute trash, better buy a mac mini/studio with this much ram if you're throwing this much money, it'll be faster (M4 Max)

[suprjami]

Agree, any Max or Ultra should walk all over this thing, and has the advantage of many years of already-working software.

Apple benchmarks: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

[bigyabai]

It really depends, the metrics are kinda all over the place right now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SF1u0J2vJ-ou-R_Ry1JZ...

(cited from https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-10-13-nvidia-dgx-spark/)