M3 Max (40-core GPU, 48 GB) — LLM Benchmarks

Measured LLM inference benchmarks for M3 Max (40-core GPU, 48 GB). Tokens per second across 2 models and multiple quantizations. Real runs, not estimates.

2 Benchmark rows

2 Models tested

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

0 Factory-lab verified rows

Benchmark results for M3 Max (40-core GPU, 48 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	—	—	149.0 tok/s	3399.1 tok/s	—	ref
Llama 2 7B	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	65.8 tok/s	691.0 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref

Models tested on this chip

Llama 2 7B Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Data

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

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