Fastest benchmarked model
Ornith-1.0-35B-MTPLX
35B
85.0 tok/s
This benchmark delivered the highest token generation speed at 85.0 tok/s.
Hardware Benchmarks
Best Local LLM Performance for Apple M5 Max
Compare Apple M5 Max benchmark results and see which models actually earn the best completed quality scores.
Hardware Overview
GPU-specific specifications for local LLM planning.
- VRAM
- 64GB
Recommended Models
Models we recommend for Apple M5 Max.
Best-quality benchmarked model
Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit
27B
8.4 tok/sQuality 85.0
This benchmark has the highest completed quality score at 85.0.
Largest context that still fits in VRAM
gemma4:31b-coding-mtp-bf16
31.7B
0.0 tok/sContext 65,536 tokens
This benchmark fits within 64GB VRAM while offering a 65,536 token context window.
Benchmark Results
Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for Apple M5 Max.