M2 Max (38-core GPU, 32 GB) — LLM Benchmarks

Measured LLM inference benchmarks for M2 Max (38-core GPU, 32 GB). Tokens per second across 3 models and multiple quantizations. Real runs, not estimates.

3 Benchmark rows

3 Models tested

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

0 Factory-lab verified rows

Benchmark results for M2 Max (38-core GPU, 32 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	—	—	153.0 tok/s	2551.4 tok/s	—	ref
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	44.7 tok/s	473.7 tok/s	—	ref
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	20.6 tok/s	225.6 tok/s	—	ref

Models tested on this chip

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

Data

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

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