M5 (10-core GPU) — benchmark record

M5 (10-core GPU) local LLM benchmarks across 16 GB, 32 GB RAM tiers on Apple Silicon Mac. 4 published rows across 3 models with explicit evidence state and RAM-tier comparison. Peak published speed is 98.4 tok/s.

4Benchmark rows

3Models tested

2RAM configurations

98.4Fastest 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 GBM5 (10-core GPU, 16 GB)1 rows · 1 models98.1 tok/s peak 32 GBM5 (10-core GPU, 32 GB)3 rows · 3 models98.4 tok/s peak

All benchmark rows — M5 (10-core GPU)

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

Chip (RAM)	Model	Quant	RAM req.	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
M5 (10-core GPU, 32 GB)	Llama 3.2 1B	Q4_K - Medium	—	98.4 tok/s	1271.5 tok/s	llamafile	ref
M5 (10-core GPU, 16 GB)	Llama 3.2 1B	Q4_K - Medium	—	98.1 tok/s	1244.9 tok/s	llamafile	ref
M5 (10-core GPU, 32 GB)	Llama 3.1 8B	Q4_K - Medium	—	22.3 tok/s	210.7 tok/s	llamafile	ref
M5 (10-core GPU, 32 GB)	Qwen 2.5 14B	Q4_K - Medium	—	11.5 tok/s	110.4 tok/s	llamafile	ref

Models tested on M5 (10-core GPU)

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

Data

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

Data from in-house lab measurements plus community-published benchmarks. See all chip families →