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Update: Strix Halo + R9700 with llama-halo-hybrid - now beats DGX Spark

Hi folks, I've spent the last couple of months experimenting with Strix Halo and previously I released a proof of concept I called llama-halo-hybrid. I've continued updating it and it now performs very well. The idea is that you can take an R9700, or similar, and place dense parts of the model, KV,…

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  1. 2026-09-30 19:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Update: Strix Halo + R9700 with llama-halo-hybrid - now beats DGX Spark

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