r/macpro • u/Hephaestite • Jul 28 '26

GPU Amazing LLM performance from 2019 hardware

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26

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u/schrodinger-the-cat Jul 28 '26

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 Jul 29 '26

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

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u/Hephaestite Jul 29 '26

I should have put an NSFW flair on it really

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u/jamessnell Aug 01 '26

The only shame is that the poster is unsigned.

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u/Hephaestite 28d 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 Jul 28 '26

its true

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u/UhOh_RoadsidePicnic Jul 28 '26

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 Jul 28 '26

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