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I measured it: swapping a dense 27B for a 30B-A3B MoE changes the local concurrency ceiling (same rig as prior test, one variable change)

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2 days ago I posted a measured concurrency ceiling: 2 local agents hitting 1 model on my MacBook Pro M3 Max share one memory bus, and on a 27B DENSE model the aggregate throughput flatlines near 20 tok/s no matter how many agents you add. My good buddy who Ive known for decades in the Tech Communit…

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    I measured it: swapping a dense 27B for a 30B-A3B MoE changes the local concurrency ceiling (same rig as prior test, one variable change)

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