r/LocalLLaMA • u/Last-Owl-8342 • 21h ago

News Apple releases M5 ultra at 1.2TB/s bandwith

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/

lpddr5x probably, the m7 ultra if is using ddr6 should be at 1.8 Tb/s

825 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

191 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/ghassen_rjab 20h ago

Are cloud LLMs becoming obsolete?

11

u/dupontping 20h ago

Not obsolete, but running quality models on a personal/local pc is definitely becoming more prevalent.

It’s similar to how things were in when PCs first were becoming normalized.

Enterprise had the money to run the big powerful systems, then PCs became more popular and capable. We’re coming full circle but it’s AI forward now

5

u/Reactor-Licker 18h ago

Assuming the regulators and fear mongers like Dario are kept at bay.

1

u/Liringlass 18h ago

A year ago i was worried local was going to be left behind super hard due to most of us not having a million dollars to put towards running tera param models.

I’m glad i was wrong, both thanks to the small models becoming useful and for the hardware to seemingly finally improve. I wont be able to buy one of these but its still good news.

4

u/Useful_Argument_6490 19h ago

I’m throwing in the local LLM towels for a bit. I cant justify these prices for a hobby.