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I benchmarked 37 LLMs on MacBook Air M5 32GB — full results + open-source tool to benchmark your own Mac

So I got curious about how fast different models actually run on my M5 Air (32GB, 10 CPU/10 GPU). Instead of just testing one or two, I went through 37 models across 10 different families and recorded everything using llama-bench with Q4\_K\_M quantization. The goal: build a **community benchmark d

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So I got curious about how fast different models actually run on my M5 Air (32GB, 10 CPU/10 GPU). Instead of just testing one or two, I went through 37 models across 10 different families and recorded everything using llama-bench with Q4\_K\_M quantization. The goal: build a **community benchmark d