M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24 GB) — benchmark record

M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24 GB) local LLM benchmarks on Apple Silicon Mac with 3 published rows across 3 models. Peak published speed is 110.9 tok/s on Llama 3.2 1B. Published runtimes include llamafile.

3Benchmark rows

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111.0Fastest avg tok/s (llama-3-2-1b-instruct)

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Quick take

Best published speed here is 110.9 tok/s on Llama 3.2 1B at Q4_K - Medium. This page is evidence, not the full buying answer.

Based on 3 external benchmarks; no lab runs yet.

Published runtimes: llamafile.

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Current published coverage

Published model coverage includes Llama 3.2 1B, Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 2.5 14B. Published runtime coverage on this chip includes llamafile. Fastest published row is 110.9 tok/s on Llama 3.2 1B at Q4_K - Medium.

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

Other published M4 Pro (16-core GPU) variants: 48 GB · 64 GB

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Raw benchmark rows for M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24 GB)

Rows sorted by avg tok/s descending. Click source badge to see original measurement page.

Model	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
Llama 3.2 1B	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	110.9 tok/s	1823.8 tok/s	llamafile	ref
Llama 3.1 8B	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	30.5 tok/s	298.0 tok/s	llamafile	ref
Qwen 2.5 14B	Q4_K - Medium	—	—	15.2 tok/s	144.3 tok/s	llamafile	ref

Models tested on this chip

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

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Data

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