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DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B (13B active)

on M3 Ultra 256GB · vMLX · 1,048,576 ctx

Apple hardware
Sep 27, 2026
Throughput
22.0 t/s gen · 75.0 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4Q8 (MLX)
System RAM
256 GB

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.