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M3 — benchmark record

M3 local LLM benchmarks across 16 GB RAM tiers on Apple Silicon Mac. 2 published rows across 2 models with explicit evidence state and RAM-tier comparison. Peak published speed is 82.0 tok/s.

2Benchmark rows
2Models tested
1RAM configurations
82.0Fastest avg tok/s

RAM configurations

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

16 GBM3 (16 GB)2 rows · 2 models82.0 tok/s peak

All benchmark rows — M3

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

Chip (RAM)ModelQuantRAM req.Avg tok/sPrompt tok/sRuntimeSource
M3 (16 GB)Gemma 4 E2BQ4_K - Medium—82.0 tok/s—Ollamaref
M3 (16 GB)Gemma 4 E4BQ4_K - Medium—62.0 tok/s—Ollamaref

Models tested on M3

Gemma 4 E2BGemma 4 E4B

Data

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 →