Apple M1 Ultra (48-core GPU) × Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on Apple M1 Ultra (48-core GPU)

49.1best gen tok/s
535best prompt tok/s
640max context tested
3results

Measured · all numbers below come from the linked sources

llama.cpp

QuantGen tok/sPrompt tok/sSourceContext testedTTFTBuild
Q4_K - Medium49.1535LocalScore ↗512+1282,154 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium48.8535LocalScore ↗512+1282,153 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium48.7534LocalScore ↗512+1282,160 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.