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Do not put soft drinks on it! Place your coffee on it to keep it warm.
$14k? glad you started with that.
Nice that you sent him this Mac Studio, but if you really want to show it properly, send him 4 x 512Gb RAM based M5 Ultra machines, because, Alex, can actually used all of that. Somehow.
Don’t put soft drinks on it! Put your coffee on it to keep it warm
About the price of a RTX 6000 which needs a computer and has less than half the memory.
I was watching M6 video 20m back thinking when you will upload Ultra. I refreshed and got the video.
10:00 I wasn't ready for Alex vs. Alex 😂 so this is about what we expected, I think. Qwen3.8-27B is the first thing I was gonna ask you for since it is such a compute hog; the next thing I really want to see is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at a fairly large quant -- like the biggest one you can fit 262k ctx with -- since it's 177B total parameters including ngram and MTP. that's I think the first place where the rubber meets the road with this machine for real inference. my prediction is it should be significantly smarter than 27B (what quant did you run that at btw?) and also it should absolutely *scream* performance wise. also really looking forward to your clustered tests. thanks for being the and getting this out so fast.
Please also test image and video generation as well.
I guess we are all waiting a 1 to 1 of twin DGX Sparks vs one of these. That will make a great video.
From what I have seen, that Deepseek flash is a serious alternative to frontier models. If it runs that well on the M5 ultra, that’s it. Put it in production. I think it is worth testing that setup further serving multiple users.
omg, that back of the head slap. 100% perfection
400 watts in such a small case. Apple needs to bring back a new updated cooling tower chimney design. 200-250mm fans from bottom to top so we can get a 1-2kw version without it sounding like a jetplane.
10:00 That slap caught me off guard and I almost died with laughter😂😂😂😂😂
PP/Watt is a better metric as it makes it easier to quantify big pp energy.
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Man it's so sad to see those prices now for bumping up storage and ram, it used to just be a rip off Apple thing, but now that's the going rate lol.
could you benchmark the base M5u 96b ? would be very interesting to see what we get at "entry level"
the best reviewer !!!
I'm curious how sustained heavy workloads at around 45 to 50 degrees might affect the long-term reliability of this pretty expensive machine
can you try some Comfyui workflows ? some vid/image generation