llamaperf

Qwen3.5 9B

on M3 Ultra 256GB · llama.cpp

Apple hardware
Oct 17, 2026
Throughput
77.8 t/s gen
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)
System RAM
256 GB

Summary

User reports 77.8 t/s generation. Source evidence (verbatim): Source: https://terminalbytes.com/ollama-vs-llama-cpp-vs-mlx-mac-2026/ # Ollama vs llama.cpp vs MLX on a Mac Studio, measured Hardware: Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra and 256GB unified memory. The author ran Qwen3.5 9B through every runtime with the same 34-token prompt, thinking off, one request at a time, two runs each, no speculative decoding. Results, generation speed: llama.cpp llama-bench build 10809 with unsloth Qwen3.5-9B Q4_K_M GGUF, tg128 77.8 tok/s; Ollama 0.32.13 GGUF qwen3.5:9b Q4_K_M 77.7 tok/s; Ollama 0.32.13 MLX NVFP4 90.5 tok/s; rapid-mlx 0.14.1 Qwen3.5-9B 4-bit 105.9 tok/s; mlx-lm 0.31.3 Qwen3.5-9B 4-bit 107.5 tok/s. The author wrote down the numbers from his own runs.