Kimi K3 2800B (104B active)
on M5 Max 128GB · llama.cpp
Oct 7, 2026
Summary
User reports Kimi K3 (2.78T) at 0.96 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB, with the trunk in memory and 1.44 TB of 4-bit routed experts streamed from NVMe drives.
Setup is a llama.cpp-derived fork with experts split across the internal SSD plus up to three Thunderbolt 5 enclosures, each holding a byte-identical replica.
Decode scales with drive count: 0.55 tok/s on one drive, 0.75 with one enclosure, 0.89 with two, 0.96 with three (1.75x), and 1.00 steady over 512 generated tokens, 1.13 over 128.