llamaperf

Gemma 4 26B (4B active)

on M5 Max 64GB · llama.cpp

Tone: positiveApple hardware
May 8, 2026
Throughput
97.0 t/s gen
System RAM
64 GB

Use cases

coding

Summary

User reports Gemma 4 26B at 97 tokens/s in llama.cpp on a MacBook Pro M5 Max. Setup is GGUF weights, with a prompt asking for a recursive Python Fibonacci program. With the user's Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) implementation for llama.cpp and quantized Gemma 4 assistant draft models, the same prompt runs at 138 tokens/s, which the user calls 40% faster.