Qwen 3 8B — Apple Silicon Benchmarks

Measured inference speed for Qwen 3 8B across 1 Apple Silicon chip. Tokens per second at multiple quantization levels. Real runs, not estimates.

Quantizations measured: Q4_K_M

1 Benchmark rows

1 Chip tiers covered

63.1 Fastest avg tok/s (M4 Max (128 GB))

— Minimum RAM observed

Benchmark results for Qwen 3 8B

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
M4 Max (128 GB)	Q4_K_M	—	10k	63.1 tok/s	—	LM Studio	ref

Chips with published results for Qwen 3 8B

M4 Max (128 GB)

Data

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