The author compares the performance of an NVIDIA RTX 5090 against Apple Silicon when running large-scale local Large Language Models. While the 5090 offers superior speed for smaller models that fit within its 32GB VRAM, it struggles with massive models that require significantly more memory. In contrast, Apple's Unified Memory Architecture allows Mac Studio users to access much larger pools of memory, making it a more viable platform for running extremely large LLMs like DeepSeek R1.
