llamaperf

Bonsai 1.7B

on Unknown GPU · BitRun

Tone: positive
Oct 16, 2026
Throughput
73.0 t/s gen

Summary

User reports Bonsai 1.7B at ~73 tokens/sec generation on an Apple M4 Pro CPU-only, pulling 11.7 Watts (about 0.31 Joules per token). Setup is BitRun v0.2.0-beta with GGUF ternary weights, running entirely on CPU memory. On a Core i5-12600K, Bonsai 1.7B generates at 85 tokens/sec pulling around 22 Watts; the 8B Bonsai model reaches 21 tokens/sec on the M4 Pro at the same 11.7 Watts, and BitNet 70M clocks almost 600 tokens/sec.