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ran 150+ benchmarks across a bunch of macs, here's what we found

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14 Oct
Mac Mini m6 32GB benchmarks
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28 May
I ran some benchmarks using oMLX tool (I know, not representative, too little sample size, leaked benchmarks 99% posible, etc.)... still quite interesting

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tq7b75/i_ran_some_benchmarks_using_omlx_tool_i_know_not/"> <img alt="I ran some benchmarks using oMLX tool

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22 Mar
Hi all, first time poster. I bought a Mac Studio Ultra M3 512GB RAM and have been testing it. Here are my latest test results

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>TLDR Although technically Qwen 3.5 397B Q8_0 fits on my server, and can process a one-off prompt, so far I’ve not found it to be practical for

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7 Apr
Claude Mythos crushed all the benchmarks

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13 Apr
FYI, Step 3.5 Flash has better perf and context is 1/4 the price in llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
13 Aug
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on 64GB Macs

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve managed to get it to run and, with some patches to llama.cpp, I get ~8 tok/s decode and ~30 tok/s prefill on a M1 Max 64GB MacBook.</p>

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21 Jul
Gemini 3.6 Flash benchmarks

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1v2l6sm/gemini_36_flash_benchmarks/"> <img alt="Gemini 3.6 Flash benchmarks"

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14 Oct
Pelican benchmark with GPT / Gemini / Claude

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1x5lxc9/pelican_benchmark_with_gpt_gemini_claude/"> <img alt="Pelican benchmark with GPT / Gemini / Claude"

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11 Apr
AmorphousMemoryMark (which benchmarks memory speeds on Macs) is now open-source

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1siv4qy/amorphousmemorymark_which_benchmarks_memory/"> <img alt="AmorphousMemoryMark (which benchmarks

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