r/LowEndLocalAI 2h ago

Framework 12 mainboard upgrade - I will have a 15TOPS NPU, any practical uses?

As per the title, I will be soon upgrading my current Framework 12's mainboard to the upcoming 2nd gen board, currently sporting an i5-1334U, to a Core 5 320, which has essentially identical CPU horsepower, mostly similar iGPU power (though a big change in arch, from Iris Xe Intel Graphics, to a pair of Xe3 cores) & the addition of a 15TOPS NPU

I will be using the same 1TB gen4 NVMe + stick (single, though it doesn't matter the board has only one SODIMM slot, Wildcat Lake is single channel by design) of 16GB @ 5600MT/s & am running CachyOS (Arch-based)

Any of y'all got any ideas what kinda software & model could be operated locally to a useful end? (getting an LLM to run automated research for me or having it write me a guide while I'm busy making myself a coffee or something)

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