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M3 Max — benchmark record

M3 Max local LLM benchmarks across 96 GB RAM tiers on Apple Silicon Mac. 1 published rows across 1 models with explicit evidence state and RAM-tier comparison. Peak published speed is 28.0 tok/s.

1Benchmark rows
1Models tested
1RAM configurations
28.0Fastest avg tok/s

Each configuration differs only in unified memory. More RAM = larger models fit. Throughput is similar across RAM tiers at the same model size.

All benchmark rows — M3 Max

Sorted by avg tok/s descending. Click source badge to see original measurement.

Chip (RAM)ModelQuantRAM req.Avg tok/sPrompt tok/sRuntimeSource
M3 Max (96 GB)Gemma 3 27BQ4_K - Medium28.0 tok/sMLXref

benchmarks.json — full dataset  ·  chips.json — chip summaries  ·  benchmarks.csv — CSV export

Data sourced from Silicon Score Lab measurements and community reference runs. See all chip families →