llamaperf

Qwen3.5 9B

on M3 Ultra 256GB · llama.cpp

Apple hardware
Oct 12, 2026
Throughput
77.8 t/s gen · 1010.3 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)
System RAM
256 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.5 9B at 77.8 t/s generation and 1010.3 t/s prompt processing on an M3 Ultra 256GB. Setup is llama.cpp with Q4_K_M, run through native llama-bench with -p 512 -n 128 -r 3. The 77.83 ± 0.11 t/s and 1010.32 ± 1.28 tokens/s are native benchmark rates for 512/128 test tokens, not configured maximum context; KV precision, flash attention and GPU-offload count are unreported.