#strix-halo

• 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.

• 2026-02-26

  Bigger Isn't Better: How a 9GB Model Beat 120B Parameters

  I benchmarked 17 local LLMs across 13 dimensions with 39 tests. The results destroyed my assumptions about model size.

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