M3 Pro (18-core GPU, 18 GB) — LLM Benchmarks

Measured LLM inference benchmarks for M3 Pro (18-core GPU, 18 GB). Tokens per second across 3 models and multiple quantizations. Real runs, not estimates.

3Benchmark rows

3Models tested

85.6Fastest avg tok/s (Llama 3.2 1B Instruct)

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Benchmark results for M3 Pro (18-core GPU, 18 GB)

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Model	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	85.6 tok/s	1573.7 tok/s	—	ref
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	20.8 tok/s	279.2 tok/s	—	ref
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	11.6 tok/s	144.8 tok/s	—	ref

Models tested on this chip

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct

Data

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

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