Llama 2 7B — Apple Silicon Benchmarks

Measured inference speed for Llama 2 7B across 5 Apple Silicon chips. Tokens per second at multiple quantization levels. Real runs, not estimates.

Quantizations measured: Q4_0

5 Benchmark rows

5 Chip tiers covered

94.3 Fastest avg tok/s (M2 Ultra (76-core GPU, 192 GB))

3.56 GB Minimum RAM observed

Benchmark results for Llama 2 7B

Rows sorted by avg tok/s descending. Click source badge to see original measurement page.

Chip	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
M2 Ultra (76-core GPU, 192 GB)	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	94.3 tok/s	1238.5 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref
M3 Max (40-core GPU, 48 GB)	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	65.8 tok/s	691.0 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref
M1 Pro (16-core GPU)	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	36.4 tok/s	266.3 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref
M3 Pro (18-core GPU)	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	30.7 tok/s	341.7 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref
M4 (10-core GPU, 16 GB)	Q4_0	3.6 GB	512	24.1 tok/s	221.3 tok/s	llama.cpp	ref

Chips with published results for Llama 2 7B

Data

benchmarks.json — full dataset · models.json — model summaries · benchmarks.csv — CSV export