llamaperf

Qwen3.6 27B

on M5 Max 128GB · MLX · 128,000 ctx

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Sep 7, 2026
Throughput
17.2 t/s gen · 706.0 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q8
System RAM
128 GB

Use cases

coding

Summary

User benchmarks a 128 GB M5 Max MacBook Pro across multiple models, selecting Qwen 3.6 27B MLX Q8 as the primary one. Other models tested include Gemma 4, MiniMax M2.7 and DeepSeek V4 Flash. The user is enthusiastic about local AI.