16 cores, 5.2 GHz, and 55 TOPS: Minisforum's newest AI workstation is mostly a massive upgrade to 192GB of memory - and that is not necessarily a bad thing
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Vendors are quietly admitting what practitioners already know — for many local AI workloads, RAM is the bottleneck, not raw TOPS. If you're speccing edge or desktop inference boxes, optimize for memory capacity and bandwidth before chasing marginal compute gains.
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