wrapped·Jul 12, 2026
/r/r_yy_6jfx70jqyour run
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
on M3 Ultra
116.8
tok/sdecode
M3 Ultra (60-core GPU) + 96GB unified
rank in tier
10/26M3 Ultra runstop 38%
best workload
chat-short
where the rig flew
slowest workload
chat-long100.5 tok/s
where the rig struggled
backend
mlxMLX is the fastest backend on Apple Silicon for dense models.
faster than
- qwen3-coder-bench-32k on M4 Max113.3 tok/s
- qwen3-coder on M4 Max109.9 tok/s
- Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB on RTX 4090107.3 tok/s