M1 8GB vs M5 32GB

For running local LLMs · 2 reports across 1 model

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 8GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 32GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M1 8GB	M5 32GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	17.5n=1	—n=1

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