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

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+++ 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

mlx convert and upload to huggingface

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

https://huggingface.co/mlx-community

uv venv
uv pip install huggingface_hub hf_transfer mlx_lm
uv run huggingface-cli login

just mlx_create "Qwen/QwQ-32B" "4 6 8" "/Users/elijahmcmorris/.cache/lm-studio/models" "false"
# or
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

QWQ

Temp Min P Top P Repeat P
0.7 0.05 0.95 -
1.5 0.10 1.00 -

Prompt Template

{%- if tools %}
    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
        {{- messages[0].content + '\n\n' }}
    {%- endif %}
    {{- "# Tools\n\nYou may call one or more functions to assist with the user query.\n\nYou are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags:\n<tools>" }}
    {%- for tool in tools %}
        {{- "\n" }}
        {{- tool | tojson }}
    {%- endfor %}
    {{- "\n</tools>\n\nFor each function call, return a json object with function name and arguments within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags:\n<tool_call>\n{\"name\": <function-name>, \"arguments\": <args-json-object>}\n</tool_call><|im_end|>\n" }}
{%- else %}
    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + messages[0].content + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endif %}
{%- set ns = namespace(multi_step_tool=true, last_query_index=messages|length - 1) %}
{%- for message in messages[::-1] %}
    {%- set index = (messages|length - 1) - loop.index0 %}
    {%- set tool_start = "<tool_response>" %}
    {%- set tool_start_length = tool_start|length %}
    {%- set start_of_message = message.content[:tool_start_length] %}
    {%- set tool_end = "</tool_response>" %}
    {%- set tool_end_length = tool_end|length %}
    {%- set start_pos = (message.content|length) - tool_end_length %}
    {%- if start_pos < 0 %}
        {%- set start_pos = 0 %}
    {%- endif %}
    {%- set end_of_message = message.content[start_pos:] %}
    {%- if ns.multi_step_tool and message.role == "user" and not(start_of_message == tool_start and end_of_message == tool_end) %}
        {%- set ns.multi_step_tool = false %}
        {%- set ns.last_query_index = index %}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- for message in messages %}
    {%- if (message.role == "user") or (message.role == "system" and not loop.first) %}
        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + message.content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
        {%- set content = message.content %}
        {%- set reasoning_content = '' %}
        {%- if message.reasoning_content is defined and message.reasoning_content is not none %}
            {%- set reasoning_content = message.reasoning_content %}
        {%- else %}
            {%- if '</think>' in message.content %}
                {%- set content = (message.content.split('</think>')|last).lstrip('\n') %}
        {%- set reasoning_content = (message.content.split('</think>')|first).rstrip('\n') %}
        {%- set reasoning_content = (reasoning_content.split('<think>')|last).lstrip('\n') %}
            {%- endif %}
        {%- endif %}
        {%- if loop.index0 > ns.last_query_index %}
            {%- if loop.last or (not loop.last and reasoning_content) %}
                {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n<think>\n' + reasoning_content.strip('\n') + '\n</think>\n\n' + content.lstrip('\n') }}
            {%- else %}
                {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
            {%- endif %}
        {%- else %}
            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
        {%- endif %}
        {%- if message.tool_calls %}
            {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
                {%- if (loop.first and content) or (not loop.first) %}
                    {{- '\n' }}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if tool_call.function %}
                    {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
                {%- endif %}
                {{- '<tool_call>\n{"name": "' }}
                {{- tool_call.name }}
                {{- '", "arguments": ' }}
                {%- if tool_call.arguments is string %}
                    {{- tool_call.arguments }}
                {%- else %}
                    {{- tool_call.arguments | tojson }}
                {%- endif %}
                {{- '}\n</tool_call>' }}
            {%- endfor %}
        {%- endif %}
        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
        {%- if loop.first or (messages[loop.index0 - 1].role != "tool") %}
            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
        {%- endif %}
        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
        {{- message.content }}
        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
        {%- if loop.last or (messages[loop.index0 + 1].role != "tool") %}
            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
        {%- endif %}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
    {%- if enable_thinking is defined and enable_thinking is false %}
        {{- '<think>\n\n</think>\n\n' }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endif %}