I think this one is only about 600GB VRAM usage, so it could fit on two mac studios with 512GB vram each. That would have costed (albeit no longer available) something like less than 20k.

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NitpickLawyer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but that's personal use at best, not much agentic anything happening on that hardware. Macs are great for small models at small-medium context lengths, but at > 64k (something very common with agentic usage) it struggles and slows down a lot.

The ~100k hardware is suitable for multi-user, small team usage. That's what you'd use for actual work in reasonable timeframes. For personal use, sure macs could work.

	▲	osti 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True, but I think for local models, we are mostly considering personal usage.

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zozbot234 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You could run it with SSD offload, earlier experiments with Kimi 2.5 on M5 hardware had it running at 2 tok/s. K2.6 has a similar amount of total and active parameters.

	▲	osti 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah... I would definitely call 2t/s unusable. For simple chats, I'd want at least 15 t/s. For agentic coding (which this model is advertised for), I'd want good prefill performance as well.