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6 articles
- 2026-04-02
M5 Max vs AMD Strix Halo: Which Is Better for Running Local LLMs?
Apple's M5 Max has 460 GB/s memory bandwidth. My AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has ~256 GB/s. The numbers seem to favor Apple — until you think about what actually matters for running large models locally.
- 2026-04-02
Llama 4 Scout: Meta's New MoE Monster, and It Already Runs Locally
Meta just dropped Llama 4 Scout — 17B active parameters, 109B total, multimodal MoE with a 10M context window. I checked if it runs locally on AMD Strix Halo. Short answer: yes, today.
- 2026-03-20
Mistral Small 4: A 119B Model That Fits in 70GB and Actually Runs Fast
Mistral Small 4 is a 119B MoE model with only 6B active parameters. I ran it on AMD Strix Halo hardware and got real numbers.
- 2026-03-14
Mamba Meets Vulkan: Running Nemotron-3-Super on Consumer AMD Hardware
NVIDIA's 120B Mamba-2 hybrid model just became runnable on consumer AMD GPUs. Here's why that matters.
- 2026-03-05
Which Local LLM Is Fastest on Ryzen AI Max+ 395? I Benchmarked 10 of Them
Real prefill and generation speeds for 10 local LLMs on Strix Halo — and the winner surprised me.
- 2026-02-23
GPT-OSS 120B: First Benchmarks on Consumer AMD Hardware
Real benchmarks of OpenAI's open-weight 120B MoE model running on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB unified memory. No cloud, no A100s, just bare metal.