(Fellow Strix Halo owner): I don't really like calling it VRAM any more than when a dGPU dynamically maps a portion of system RAM. It's really just a system with quad channel RAM speeds attached to a GPU without VRAM - nearly 2x identical in performance to using the system RAM on my 2 channel desktop instead of actual VRAM on the dGPU in the system (which is something like 20x).
That's great, and I love the little laptop for the amount of x86 perf it can pack into so little cooling, but my used Epyc box of ~the same price is usually faster for AI (despite the complete lack of video card) and able to load models 3x the size (well, before RAM prices doubled this last month) because it has modular 12 channel RAM and memory speeds this low don't really need a GPU to keep up with the matrix math. Meanwhile, Flux is already slow when it's on actual real high bandwidth dedicated GPU memory VRAM.
(Fellow Strix Halo owner): I don't really like calling it VRAM any more than when a dGPU dynamically maps a portion of system RAM. It's really just a system with quad channel RAM speeds attached to a GPU without VRAM - nearly 2x identical in performance to using the system RAM on my 2 channel desktop instead of actual VRAM on the dGPU in the system (which is something like 20x).
That's great, and I love the little laptop for the amount of x86 perf it can pack into so little cooling, but my used Epyc box of ~the same price is usually faster for AI (despite the complete lack of video card) and able to load models 3x the size (well, before RAM prices doubled this last month) because it has modular 12 channel RAM and memory speeds this low don't really need a GPU to keep up with the matrix math. Meanwhile, Flux is already slow when it's on actual real high bandwidth dedicated GPU memory VRAM.