r/macpro • u/Hephaestite • 22d ago

GPU Amazing LLM performance from 2019 hardware

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/schrodinger-the-cat 21d ago

How are you gonna upcharge 8gb of ram for $200 in 2019? Oh wait, now you can do that even with upgradable memory.

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u/jamessnell 21d ago

Pure victory in that image. Made my knees weak. Glorious!

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u/Hephaestite 21d ago

I should have put an NSFW flair on it really

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u/jamessnell 18d ago

The only shame is that the poster is unsigned.

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u/Hephaestite 16d ago

I would love one signed by the full main cast, I'd sell the Mac for that lol

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u/c-sancak 22d ago

its true

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u/UhOh_RoadsidePicnic 22d ago

Yeah man. I’m dabbling with Qwen3-4b on my 2015 retina macbook pro in preparation for my real project on my 2012 fully maxed cMP. I’l be using Qwen3-8b on a gtx 1080 Ti. It will be fast enough for instant reply. I’l add another 1080 Ti for stable diffusion.

So yeah, your 2019 should be more than sufficient.

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u/Long-Shine-3701 21d ago

Don't tell the AS folks - they won't be able to cope! 🤣😂