Apple M1 Pro (14-core GPU) × Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on Apple M1 Pro (14-core GPU)

20.4best gen tok/s
181best prompt tok/s
640max context tested
4results

Measured · all numbers below come from the linked sources

llama.cpp

QuantGen tok/sPrompt tok/sSourceContext testedTTFTBuild
Q4_K - Medium20.4181LocalScore ↗512+1286,867 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium20.2180LocalScore ↗512+1286,882 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium20.0173LocalScore ↗512+1287,231 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium19.8170LocalScore ↗512+1287,226 msllamafile 0.9.2

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"Context tested" is the largest prompt+generation length actually benchmarked (tokens), not a memory-fit estimate.

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Includes results from LocalScore, a Mozilla Builders project by cjpais, mirrored in the cn0303/local-llm-speed-benchmarks dataset. LocalScore runs use llamafile, which is built on llama.cpp.