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Qwen3-4B on Mac Max: 186 tok/s measured
Measured Qwen3-4B speeds: 186 tok/s on Mac Max (MLX-4BIT, mlx). 3 configs, each linked to its source, snapshot 2026-10-15.
Snapshot 2026-10-15 · 394 configs on AI boxes and 423 on GPU cards · 123 models. Every number is generated from the tracker snapshot and linked to where it was measured; nothing here is typed by hand.
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- How fast is Qwen3-4B on Mac Max?
- 186 tok/s single-stream decode (MLX-4BIT, mlx), the fastest of 3 measured configs on Apple M-series Max (MacBook Pro / Mac Studio Max), measured by emihiggins, source last checked 2026-09-29. source
Measured configs for Qwen3-4B
| Model | Hardware | Quant | Backend | Decode | Context | Trust | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-4B | Mac Max | MLX-4BIT | mlx | 186 tok/s (prefill 5506) | 512 | Extracted, source-linked | source |
| Qwen3-4B | Mac Max | Q4_K_M | llama.cpp | 159.7 tok/s (prefill 4973) | 512 | Extracted, source-linked | source |
| Qwen3-4B | Mac Max | BF16 | xwen | 55.9 tok/s (prefill 3416) | 3890 | Extracted, source-linked | source |
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