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If you're able to purchase a separate GPU, the most popular option is to get an NVIDIA RTX3090 or RTX4090.

Apple Mac M2 or M3's are becoming a viable option because of MLX https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx . If you are getting an M series Mac for LLMs, I'd recommend getting something with 24GB or more of RAM.

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You don’t need MLX for this. Ollama, which is based on llama.cpp is GPU accelerated on a Mac. In particular it has better performance on quantized models. MLX can be used for eg fine tuning etc. It’s a bit faster than PyTorch for that.

mlx is not super relevant

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