M5 Max (32-core GPU, 36 GB) — LLM Benchmarks

Measured LLM inference benchmarks for M5 Max (32-core GPU, 36 GB). Tokens per second across 3 models and multiple quantizations. Real runs, not estimates.

3Benchmark rows

3Models tested

229.0Fastest avg tok/s (Llama 3.2 1B Instruct)

0Factory-lab verified rows

Benchmark results for M5 Max (32-core GPU, 36 GB)

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Model	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	229.0 tok/s	3620.7 tok/s	—	ref
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	61.6 tok/s	630.3 tok/s	—	ref
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	34.3 tok/s	343.2 tok/s	—	ref

Models tested on this chip

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct

Data

benchmarks.json — full dataset · chips.json — chip summaries · benchmarks.csv — CSV export

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