It isn't for "running models." Inference workloads like that are faster on a mac studio, if that's the goal. Apple has faster memory.

These devices are for AI R&D. If you need to build models or fine tune them locally they're great.

That said, I run GPT-OSS 120B on mine and it's 'fine'. I spend some time waiting on it, but the fact that I can run such a large model locally at a "reasonable" speed is still kind of impressive to me.

It's REALLY fast for diffusion as well. If you're into image/video generation it's kind of awesome. All that compute really shines when for workloads that aren't memory speed bound.

With a 5070 Ti performance that's a weird choice for R&D as well. You won't be able to train models that require anywhere near 100GB VRAM due to slow processing, and 5070 Ti is under $1k