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M5 Ultra 96GB vs GB10 128GB?

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The part I’m struggling with is how to weigh the hardware differences against recent model/runtime developments. Should I make a bet on Apple to further improve oMLX and one day be comparable to CUDA? Since the prefill issue seems to be more of a software optimization issue instead of a hardware is…

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  1. 2026-09-03 08:15 · r/LocalLLM
    M5 Ultra 96GB vs GB10 128GB?

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