llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on M3 Ultra 96GB · llama.cpp

Apple hardware
Oct 13, 2026
Throughput
29.0 t/s gen · 274.0 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)
System RAM
96 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B at 29 t/s generation and 274 t/s prompt processing on an M3 Ultra 96GB. Setup is llama.cpp 0.4.0 with the Q4_K_M GGUF, run natively through llama-bench on one Apple GPU via Metal. The native benchmark gives 28.97 +/- 0.03 tok/s generation and 273.98 +/- 0.03 tok/s prompt processing; context length, batch settings and offload flags are unreported.