viraldi.
Video details
How it works
Back to discovery
15:06
Technology & Computing / VIDEO

Why Your Mac Is Slow at Local AI (And It's Not the Chip)

Kai· 58.4K subscribers

11d ago · English audio

Local AI on a Mac feels slow for a reason the tokens-per-second counter never shows: your local LLM re-reads the whole prompt every turn. An M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB of unified memory spent 8 hours making 15 edits with a coding agent, and the chip was never the problem. Every "why is local AI slow on my Mac" video lands on memory bandwidth, and that part is real. A Mac mini M6 moves 170 GB/s, an M5 Max moves…

Watch on YouTube
3.0×Score at discovery
136.1KViews
44.9KMedian · 50 videos

Outlier score

This score was measured on Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:21:48 GMT. Current view counts may differ.

135.8K views ÷ a 44.9K baseline = 3.0×. Compared with 50 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:36:18 GMT. Counters may have changed.

Read the methodology

Generative AI & Agents

Channel-balanced percentile: 97

Comparison details

68 videos from 45 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 271 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:46:31 GMT.

Niches & tags

Transcripts and detailed analytics are available for recent outlier Shorts up to three minutes. Research tools

Breakouts from other channels