Apple's M5 Ultra chip is approaching the memory bandwidth of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 while offering significantly more unified memory capacity. According to industry rumors, Apple plans to skip the M6 generation entirely and release the M7 Pro/Max/Ultra in late 2027, with the M7 Ultra expected to match the RTX 5090's bandwidth exactly. This development offers promise for local LLM enthusiasts who anticipate the ability to run large frontier AI models on personal hardware within the next 1-2 years, though