stared/benching-local-llms-on-apple-silicon

Community benchmark database for running LLMs on Apple Silicon Macs

Reproducible on-device LLM benchmarks for Apple Silicon (iPhone 17 Pro, M4 Max): Apple Core AI, MLX, llama.cpp, LiteRT-LM and Core ML on the same model and harness, every number with its quantization and capture session; hybrid Mamba-2 models (Nemotron-3 Nano, Granite-4.0-H, Falcon-H1) included.

Multiple NVIDIA GPUs or Apple Silicon for Large Language Model Inference?

Community-driven benchmark suite for MLX inference engines on Apple Silicon

lithos-metal: high-performance LLM inference kernels and serving for Apple silicon.

The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 GB Macs. Native MTP speculative decoding on Apple Silicon, exact at any temperature. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible local server.

Up to 4× faster LLM decoding on Apple Silicon, lossless. Native MLX port of DeepSeek's DSpark & z-lab's DFlash speculative decoding — Gemma-4, Qwen3.8, Muse-Glimmer, Nemotron, LFM2.5, Ornith-1.0, ternary Bonsai-27B.

Swift + Metal MoE inference for Apple Silicon: Qwen 3.6 35B at 23.5–29.3 tok/s decode with 2.20× faster long-prompt prefill on a 24 GB M5; Gemma 4 26B in ~2 GB, DeepSeek-V4-Flash 284B, Inkling-Small 276B, native Mac app, CLI, and OpenAI-compatible server.

Fastest LLM inference runtime for Apple Silicon