DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B (13B active)
on M3 Ultra 256GB · vMLX · 1,048,576 ctx
Use cases
tool-uselong-context
Summary
User reports DeepSeek V4 Flash at ~22 tok/s decode and ~75 tok/s prefill on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 256GB unified memory.
Setup is vMLX with a mixed-precision MLX affine quantization (Q4 routed experts, Q8 attention and shared expert, fp16 norms) at group size 32, 173 GB on disk, 1,048,576 token context.
vMLX disables continuous batching for this model, so all requests go through SimpleEngine; the bundle requires a runtime patch to vMLX's jang_tools loader to avoid 8-bit expert wrapping and BOS-token loops.