M6 32GB

reported speed:

52.2 tokens/s generation

quant:

4-bit (MLX)

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User reports Gemma-4-26B-A4B 4-bit at 52.2 tok/s decode on a base Mac mini M6 with 32 GB unified memory. Setup is SwiftLM with MLX 4-bit weights, full GPU offload, peak GPU memory 19.5 GB; the longest prompt that passed was 80.7K tokens at 622 tok/s prefill and 24.3 tok/s decode. Also benchmarks Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 4-bit at 46.7 tok/s (GPU) and 13.2 tok/s (--stream-experts), Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit dense at 9.3 tok/s with 200 tok/s prefill, and Gemma-4-26B-A4B 8-bit at 8.8 tok/s with --stream-experts. An A/B against the prior revision shows 998 tok/s prefill at ~2.3K tokens versus 508 tok/s with swap, and 914 tok/s at ~9.5K tokens where the earlier build aborted on swap.

reported speed:

63.8 tokens/s generation

quant:

MLX 4-bit (MLX)

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User reports Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 63.8 t/s median decode on a Mac mini M6 with 32 GB unified memory. Setup is LM Studio with the MLX 4-bit build and a 32,768-token context; the MLX build ignored the context setting and loaded 34k to 165k. Reasoning off, max_tokens 600, temperature 0.7, median of 3 runs per prompt. The same model's Splash build (speculative decoding with DFlash2 drafts) reached 51.5-234.1 t/s across the five prompts, slower on German prose and faster on code and JSON. The user recommends Splash where it exists and notes the MLX build was faster than Splash on German prose (63 vs 52-59 t/s).