Qwen3.6 27B
M3 Max 128GB · MLX · 290,000 ctx
- generation:
- 5-6 tokens/s
- prompt processing (prefill):
- 160.0 tokens/s
- quant:
- Q8 (MLX)
User reports 160 t/s prefill and 5-6 t/s generation on an M5 Max 128GB with Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 MLX at 290k context. GPU utilization sits at only 36-50%. User expected 8-14 t/s generation and asks how other setups compare.