Comment by simple10
3 hours ago
The Ryzen AI Max 395 128gb is super cool, but not fast for inference. Order of magnitude slower than dedicated GPU but at half the cost. You can run larger models on it but it's slow. Great for local async work. Not great for daily chat or code agent driver.
The latest NPUs are pretty fast, I think what is missing is more optimised software support.
The vRAM bandwidth is at least as much a problem as compute on these ones, there is a lot of data to shuffle around