M3 Pro (18 GB) — benchmark record

M3 Pro (18 GB) local LLM benchmarks on Apple Silicon Mac with 2 published rows across 2 models. Peak published speed is 88.0 tok/s on Gemma 3 4B. Published runtimes include MLX, Ollama.

2Benchmark rows

2Models tested

88.0Fastest avg tok/s (Gemma 3 4B)

0Lab benchmarks

Quick take

Best published speed here is 88.0 tok/s on Gemma 3 4B at Q4_K - Medium. This page is evidence, not the full buying answer.

Based on 2 external benchmarks; no lab runs yet.

Published runtimes: MLX, Ollama.

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Current published coverage

Published model coverage includes Gemma 3 4B, Llama 3.1 8B. Published runtime coverage on this chip includes MLX, Ollama. Fastest published row is 88.0 tok/s on Gemma 3 4B at Q4_K - Medium.

Gemma 3 4B Llama 3.1 8B

Raw benchmark rows for M3 Pro (18 GB)

Rows sorted by avg tok/s descending. Click source badge to see original measurement page.

Model	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
Gemma 3 4B	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	88.0 tok/s	—	MLX	ref
Llama 3.1 8B	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	62.0 tok/s	—	Ollama	ref

Models tested on this chip

Gemma 3 4B Llama 3.1 8B

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Data

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