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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 24, 2026

MacBook Pro M5 Max LSE LLM running an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 over Thunderbolt 5 in a Razer enclosure

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Hello Everyone! Good news for anyone who can compile code on apple, you can now experience using a AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 on a MacBook Pro or Mac mini, Mac Studio or any OSX variant as long as it has Thunderbolt, next up is a iPad with a M series processor ! The driver seems to be working pretty sound now, and I am continuing to optimize my engine LSE or LemonSeed-Engine. It supports Qwen3.6 - 3.8 Dense and/or MoE with MTP, it works on Mac only through amdgpu driver I ported to mac from Linux a