llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on M5 Pro 64GB · llama.cpp

Apple hardware
Oct 12, 2026
Throughput
18.5 t/s gen · 381.6 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
UD-IQ4_XS (GGUF)
System RAM
64 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8 27B at 18.5 t/s generation and 381.6 t/s prompt processing on an M5 Pro with 64GB unified RAM. Setup is llama.cpp with the Unsloth UD-IQ4_XS quant, run via llama-bench at -p 512 -n 128. The source gives 18.45 +/- 0.03 tok/s and 381.62 +/- 0.18 tok/s; the generation figure is not a post-512-prompt end-to-end run, and context limit, KV precision and offload settings are unstated.