nexveridian-web/content/blog/llm-inference-benchmarks.md

+++ title = "LLM Inference Benchmarks - Apple M4 Max 48GB 16 Core 16-inch using LM Studio" date = 2025-05-06

[taxonomies] tags = ["llm", "benchmarks", "llm-benchmarks", "lm-studio"] +++

Size (B)	Speed (T/s)	Model	Type	Quant	Spec Dec (B)	Spec Quant
1.5	282	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	-	-
1.5	76	qwen 2.5	MLX	8	-	-
7	70	qwen 2.5	GUFF	Q4_K_M	-	-
7	101	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	-	-
7	58	qwen 2.5	MLX	8	-	-
12	35	wayfarer	GUFF	Q6_K	-	-
12	65	wayfarer	MLX	4	-	-
12	45	wayfarer	MLX	6	-	-
12	36	wayfarer	MLX	8	-	-
14	36	qwen 2.5	GUFF	Q4_K_M	-	-
14	52	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	-	-
14	55	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	1.5	4
14	30	qwen 2.5	MLX	8	-	-
24	35	mistral small 3	MLX	4	-	-
32	18	qwen 2.5	GUFF	Q4_K_M	-	-
32	23	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	-	-
32	30	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	1.5	4
32	30	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	1.5	4
32	34	qwen 2.5	MLX	4	1.5	8
32	26	qwen 2.5 r1	MLX	4	1.5	4
32	33	qwen 2.5 coder	MLX	4	1.5	4
32	31	qwen 2.5 coder	MLX	4	3	4
32	25	qwq	MLX	3	-	-
32	24	qwq	MLX	4	-	-
32	18	qwq	MLX	4	1.5	4
32	22	qwq	MLX	4	1.5	8
32	16	qwq	MLX	4	7	4
32	16	qwq	MLX	4	7	8
32	16	qwq	MLX	6	-	-
32	16	qwq	MLX	6	1.5	4
32	16	qwq	MLX	6	1.5	8
70	12	wayfarer large	GUFF	Q2_K_S	-	-
70	15	wayfarer large	MLX	3	-	-
30 - A3	93	qwen 3	MLX	4	-	-
30 - A3	76	qwen 3	MLX	4	1.7	4
30 - A3	81	qwen 3	MLX	6	-	-
30 - A3	70	qwen 3	MLX	6	1.7	4
30 - A3	70	qwen 3	MLX	8	-	-
32	22	qwen 3	MLX	4	-	-
32	26	qwen 3	MLX	4	1.7	4
24	18	Devstral Small 2507	MLX	8	-	-

mlx convert and upload to huggingface

https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/mlx

https://huggingface.co/mlx-community

git clone git@github.com:NexVeridian/NexVeridian-web.git

just uv

just mlx_create "Qwen/QwQ-32B" "4 6 8" "/Users/elijahmcmorris/.cache/lm-studio/models" "mlx-community" fasle false
# or
uv venv
uv pip install huggingface_hub hf_transfer mlx_lm
uv run huggingface-cli login

uv run mlx_lm.convert --hf-path Qwen/QwQ-32B -q --q-bits 4 --upload-repo mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit --mlx-path /Users/elijahmcmorris/.cache/lm-studio/models/mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit

or use https://huggingface.co/spaces/mlx-community/mlx-my-repo

LLM Settings.md

Qwen 3

Temp	Min P	Top P	Top K	Repeat P
0.6	0.00	0.95	20	-

Qwen 3 /no_think

Temp	Min P	Top P	Top K	Repeat P
0.7	0.00	0.80	20	1.5