llamaperf

Nex-N2.5-mini 35B (3B active)

on M5 Max 128GB · MLX

Tone: positiveApple hardware
Sep 12, 2026
Throughput
133.6 t/s gen
Quant
MLX-4bit (MLX)
System RAM
128 GB

Use cases

agenticcoding

Summary

User reports Nex-N2.5-mini at 133.6 t/s on an Apple M5 Max. Setup is MLX with the MLX-4bit quant, using temperature 0.7, top_p 0.95, top_k 40, and reasoning_effort high. User calls the generation speed and prompt processing really good, the memory footprint okay, and the quality good across the board, and plans to use it for agents and possibly coding.