llamaperf

LLaMA family 7B / Q4_0 / Mac mini M2 Metal b1550 / PP512 TG128 / exact base and artifact unknown

on M2 24GB · llama.cpp b1550 (8e672efe) / Metal

Apple hardware
Oct 13, 2026
Throughput
21.9 t/s gen · 179.6 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_0 (GGUF)
System RAM
24 GB

Summary

User reports a LLaMA-family 7B model at 21.9 t/s generation and 179.6 t/s prompt processing on a Mac mini M2 with 24 GB unified RAM. Setup is llama.cpp build 1550 with Q4_0 quantization, F16 KV cache, Metal backend and ngl 99, running llama-bench PP512 and TG128. The figures are independent synthetic prompt and generation tests, not a 512-token prompt followed by a 128-token answer; the source rates are 179.57 ± 0.04 t/s and 21.91 ± 0.02 t/s.