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Mac Pro's Decade-Old GPUs Now Run LLMs via Vulkan Support
A 2016 Mac Pro with AMD D700 GPUs—idle for years—now runs large language models after Linux kernel updates enabled Vulkan support for legacy southern islands architecture.
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A 2016 Mac Pro with AMD D700 GPUs—once considered obsolete for machine learning—is now running inference workloads after Linux kernel updates enabled Vulkan support for the machine's legacy southern islands GPU architecture.
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