Benchmarks · community-measured
qwen3.5-9b-8bit on Apple M5 Max
Real measured local-inference performance for
qwen3.5-9b-8bit on an Apple M5 Max (36 GB unified memory),
from the rapid-mlx community benchmark corpus. Latest submission 2026-08-13,
measured on rapid-mlx 0.12.10.
45.2
tok/s decode
1857
tok/s prefill
1.2 s
first token
10.4 GB
peak memory
Aggregated from 2 community runs.
All measurements for this pair
| RAM | Accel | Decode | Prefill | TTFT | Peak mem | Runs | rapid-mlx | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 GB | — | 45.2 tok/s | 1857 tok/s | 1.2 s | 10.4 GB | 2 | 0.12.10 | 2026-08-13 |
Standardized single-request benchmark: 5 measured rounds after 1 discarded warmup, greedy sampling, prefix cache disabled. Raw corpus: /api/benchmarks.
Reproduce this number
Install rapid-mlx, run the same suite on your Mac, and submit the result — it lands on the community leaderboard and updates this page.
$ curl -fsSL https://rapidmlx.com/install.sh | bash
$ rapid-mlx bench qwen3.5-9b-8bit --tier speed --submit