614 vs 273 GB/s: Why a MacBook Still Beats NVIDIA’s New RTX Spark at Local LLMs

NVIDIA's new RTX Spark for Windows on Arm offers 273 GB/s memory bandwidth, but Apple's MacBook still outperforms it with 614 GB/s for local LLM inference, highlighting the continued advantage of unified memory architecture in Apple Silicon.

Windows on Arm finally has a real answer to the Arm Mac, and it came from NVIDIA, not Qualcomm. But for running models locally, the one… Continue reading on Towards AI »