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I made an open-source app to run LLMs on the Snapdragon X NPU, with a benchmark, auto-picked models and GenieX vs Foundry Local

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I’ve been playing with local LLMs on a Surface Laptop 7 (Snapdragon X Plus, 16 GB) and I found out you can really use the NPU, and it’s better in a few ways. The catch is that most local apps (Ollama, LM Studio, plain llama.cpp builds) run on the CPU without telling you. What I saw, on my machine o…

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  1. 2026-10-26 11:01 · r/LocalLLM
    I made an open-source app to run LLMs on the Snapdragon X NPU, with a benchmark, auto-picked models and GenieX vs Foundry Local

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