wrapped·May 12, 2026
/r/r_1pl79r50ofyyour run
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit
on M3 Ultra
80.3
tok/sdecode
M3 Ultra (60-core GPU) + 96GB unified
rank in tier
16/26M3 Ultra runstop 62%
best workload
chat-short
where the rig flew
slowest workload
chat-long77.6 tok/s
where the rig struggled
backend
mlxMLX is the fastest backend on Apple Silicon for dense models.
faster than
- gemma3 on RTX 309078.7 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct on RTX 309078.2 tok/s
- Qwen3.8-27B on RTX 509075.4 tok/s