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		tarruda 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image gener... > but it’s light years behind on compute. Is that the only factor though? I wonder if pytorch is lacking optimization for the MPS backend.

rfoo 45 days ago [–]

This is the only factor. People sometimes perceive Apple's NPU as "fast" and "amazing" which is simply false.

It's just that NVIDIA GPU sucks (relatively) at *single-user* LLM inference and it makes people feel like Apple not so bad.

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