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Apple Silicon Unified Memory for GPU-Accelerated Analytics — TPC-H benchmarks across DuckDB, NumPy, and MLX

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Benchmarking Apple Silicon unified mem for GPU-accelerated SQL analysis

by sadopc·Feb 18, 2026·3 points·1 comment

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The Take

The repo does one practical thing well: quantify the real-world impact of Apple Silicon's unified memory on analytics by running six TPC-H queries plus a GPU-favorable QX and shipping the raw charts and code. It's specific and empirical — you get MLX vs NumPy vs DuckDB numbers and PNGs, not just hand-wavy claims — but it's narrowly scoped to M4 hardware and small-ish scales, so its conclusions are useful for experimentation rather than sweeping generalization.

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Systems researchers, database engineers, performance engineers, and GPU/ML developers interested in real-world query performance

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