#CUDA vs Metal — Kunal Ganglani

Apple Silicon vs NVIDIA GPU for Local LLMs

NVIDIA wins on raw throughput and ecosystem depth for serious multi-GPU workloads; Apple Silicon wins on memory bandwidth per dollar and zero-friction local inference for solo developers. Your budget and batch size decide the rest.

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