The fastest plain-decode result we have is 145.8 tok/s on Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (4-bit MLX, oMLX 0.7.0) in Mac Studio M5 Max 36 GB: Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at 173 tok/s (Rapid-MLX), 146 on oMLX. Speed depends heavily on the model, quant and engine, so compare like with like in the table. RigBase lists 13 measured results from 2 builds.
How much memory does the Apple M5 Max have?
unified memory: 36–128 GB in our builds.
Which models have been measured on the Apple M5 Max?
Every row links to a build page with its original public source (benchmark logs, READMEs, forum posts). RigBase does not re-run the benchmarks. Results marked ⚡ use speculative decoding and are not comparable 1:1 with plain decode.
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