David Hendrickson(@TeksEdge):This iPad Pro + Thunderbolt R9700 is running Qwen3.8-27B at 158.5 tps. Yes… an iPad. The trick 🎮 32GB Radeon AI PRO R9700 🔌 Thunderbolt eGPU enclosure 📱 iPad Pro running LemonSeed Studio 🧠 Qwen3.8-27B Q4 📚 131K context And the speed progression is kind of ridiculous 🐌 baseline → 31.2 tps ⚡ MTP3 → 108.7 tps 🚀 DFlash2 → 158.5 tps Prefill: 📥 4K → 1,636 tps 📥 32K → 1,395 tps LemonSeed actually runs the AMD GPU on iPadOS. It embeds the upstream Linux amdgpu + amdkfd driver as an iPad PCIDriverKit extension, then runs its inference engine on the R9700. Same engine for 🐧 Linux | 🍎 macOS | 📱 iPadOS Same R9700 on macOS reaches 159.4 tps, so the iPadOS result is basically right there with the Mac. ⚠️ Obviously, the iPad's own GPU isn't doing the 159 tps. The iPad is hosting a 32GB desktop AMD GPU over Thunderbolt. 🔗 Link in ALT.

2026.10.10 01:30

This iPad Pro + Thunderbolt R9700 is running Qwen3.8-27B at 158.5 tps. Yes… an iPad. The trick 🎮 32GB Radeon AI PRO R9700 🔌 Thunderbolt eGPU enclosure 📱 iPad Pro running LemonSeed Studio 🧠 Qwen3.8-27B Q4 📚 131K context And the speed progression is kind of ridiculous 🐌 baseline → 31.2 tps ⚡ MTP3 → 108.7 tps 🚀 DFlash2 → 158.5 tps Prefill: 📥 4K → 1,636 tps 📥 32K → 1,395 tps LemonSeed actually runs the AMD GPU on iPadOS. It embeds the upstream Linux amdgpu + amdkfd driver as an iPad PCIDriverKit extension, then runs its inference engine on the R9700. Same engine for 🐧 Linux | 🍎 macOS | 📱 iPadOS Same R9700 on macOS reaches 159.4 tps, so the iPadOS result is basically right there with the Mac. ⚠️ Obviously, the iPad's own GPU isn't doing the 159 tps. The iPad is hosting a 32GB desktop AMD GPU over Thunderbolt. 🔗 Link in ALT.