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Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

15/10/26, 12:45 pm2 reposts5 likes

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Note that in all other benchmarks for local macOS/Metal engines an M5 Max laptop (and likely the new Studio M5 Ultra) easily outperform any Spark system. See e.g. MLX Serve or oMLX. This is likely due to the higher RAM access speed on very recent M5 systems. That said, the numbers are impressive.