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Is Strix Halo (GMKtec EVO-X2, etc.) the closest thing we have to a "dream" local LLM box?

I've been looking at the A few years ago, projects like Hummingbird+ suggested that cheap custom accelerators (FPGA-based) might become the future of local inference. But today it seems like memory capacity is still the real bottleneck rather than raw TOPS. For someone who wants to run modern 20B-3…

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  1. 2026-10-04 22:07 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Is Strix Halo (GMKtec EVO-X2, etc.) the closest thing we have to a "dream" local LLM box?

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