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Qwen3 30B (3B active)

on M5 Max 128GB · MLX

Apple hardware
Oct 8, 2026
Throughput
130.6 t/s gen · 5402.4 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
System RAM
128 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3 30B-A3B at 130.628 t/s generation and 5402.434 t/s prompt processing on an Apple M5 Max with 128GB unified memory. Setup is MLX 0.32.2 with MLX-LM 0.31.3 on macOS 27.0; quantization, context length and KV cache settings are not reported. Figures come from a third-party hardware review (Tbreak, September 21, 2026), not a reproducible benchmark log; prompt and generated token counts are unknown.