Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for Apple M1 Max

Compare Apple M1 Max benchmark results and see which models actually earn the best completed quality scores.

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Hardware Overview

GPU-specific specifications for local LLM planning.

Apple M1 Max
VRAM
64GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for Apple M1 Max.

Fastest

ornith-ai-ornith-1.5-35b-a3b-mtplx-1

35B

51.3 tok/s

Highest token generation speed at 51.3 tok/s.

Best quality & Largest context

mtplx-qwen38-27b-optimized-speed-fp16

27B

17.1 tok/sQuality 85.7Context 262,144 tokens

Highest completed quality score at 85.7. Largest context that fits in 64GB VRAM, at 262,144 tokens.

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for Apple M1 Max.