Hardware Benchmarks

Best Local LLM Performance for Apple M5 Pro

Compare Apple M5 Pro 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 M5 Pro
VRAM
64GB

Recommended Models

Models we recommend for Apple M5 Pro.

Fastest

fairy:latest

4.0B

90.8 tok/s

Highest token generation speed at 90.8 tok/s.

Best quality & Largest context

qwen3.8:27b-mlx

27.8B

36.7 tok/sQuality 81.0Context 32,768 tokens

Highest completed quality score at 81.0. Largest context that fits in 64GB VRAM, at 32,768 tokens.

Benchmark Results

Completed quality-ranked benchmark results for Apple M5 Pro.