| ▲ | vehemenz 5 hours ago |
| This comment has me a bit confused. Consumers were complaining about the standard 8GB with the early 2020 refresh of MacBook Pros, many OSes ago. Sure, it might be workable for many tasks (as evidenced by the recent sales of the MacBook Neo), but users with a mere 8GB shouldn't have expectations of LLM performance. Even 16GB feels like a stretch. |
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| ▲ | NekkoDroid 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think you are mixing up RAM and VRAM. |
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| ▲ | Schiendelman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | On a Mac they are the same thing; they're shared. Of course you need some amount for the OS, but if you have an Apple Silicon Mac with 24GB of RAM, you can likely run a 16GB model. | |
| ▲ | crims0n 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They are effectively one and the same on Apple Silicon. | | |
| ▲ | NekkoDroid 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Which most people as a matter of fact don't use. A majority of people with laptop have separate memory pools and the VRAM of them is nowhere near that and even on most gaming laptops you aren't getting 16GB VRAM. | | |
| ▲ | fredzel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > A majority of people with laptop have separate memory pools Majority of people with laptop have RAM and igpu using some of that as VRAM. | |
| ▲ | mrkstu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I would say on this forum it wouldn’t be suprising for commentors to be near or above 50% that have access to an M Series Mac… |
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| ▲ | utternerd 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Unified Memory or VRAM, not just RAM. |
