Apple M3 Pro (18-core GPU) × Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on Apple M3 Pro (18-core GPU)

22.1best gen tok/s
284best prompt tok/s
640max context tested
2results

Measured · all numbers below come from the linked sources

llama.cpp

QuantGen tok/sPrompt tok/sSourceContext testedTTFTBuild
Q4_K - Medium22.1284LocalScore ↗512+1284,460 msllamafile 0.9.2
Q4_K - Medium20.8279LocalScore ↗512+1284,530 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.