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Computing & Hardware
Laptops, desktops, mini PCs, GPUs, memory and storage — what to buy and how to size it.
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Why your local LLM is slow: memory bandwidth, not TFLOPS
A GPU with twice the compute can generate tokens no faster than one with half of it. Generation reads the entire model from memory for every token produced, so bandwidth sets the ceiling — and you can calculate yours before you buy anything.