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Article 2d ago 0

macOS VMs Have Been Sandbagging Your GPU

Cua's Metal capability shim recovers up to 16x llama.cpp throughput that Apple's paravirtualized graphics was hiding.

Rachel Goldstein

Your macOS VM's GPU Was Never Slow, Just Mislabeled

A shim that lies to Metal about GPU capabilities recovers near-bare-metal llama.cpp speeds inside Apple Silicon VMs.

Article · 2d ago1

Local Video Generation Gets Its llama.cpp Moment

antirez's h3.c renders MiniMax's open 33B video-and-audio model in about 75 seconds on Apple Silicon.

Article · 2d ago4

Native Command & Conquer on iOS: The Wild Stack Making It Happen

How a legacy DirectX 8 engine was compiled for ARM64 and routed through DXVK and MoltenVK to Metal.

Article · 1mo ago3

Apple Fast-Tracks M7 Silicon to Rewrite On-Device AI Limits

Skipping high-end M6 chips forces developers to target a massive leap in memory bandwidth and Neural Engine capacity.

Article · 1mo ago0

Quantize and Run Llama 3.2 on Apple Silicon with llama.cpp

Build llama.cpp with Metal, convert Llama 3.2 3B to Q4_K_M GGUF, and benchmark real prompt-processing and generation throughput on your specific chip.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0