RaynarDM/apple-silicon-llm-benchmarks

Apple Silicon Local LLM Benchmarks — M2 Max 32GB Measurements taken while trying to get Qwen3.8-27B usable locally on a 32GB M2 Max. Most of the popular speedup advice did not transfer from CUDA, so these are mostly negative results. Everything here was measured on one machine. Treat it as a datapoint, not a law. Hardware and software Chip Apple M2 Max Unified memory 32 GB (~21.8 GB wireable to the GPU) macOS 26.5.2 llama.cpp build c1d0e7a00… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RaynarDM/apple-silicon-llm-benchmarks.

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