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Rig report

MacBook Pro M5 Pro (24GB)

24.0 GB memory · 307 GB/s · 45 of 64 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Qwen3.8 27BRuns great

Q3_K_M · 13.4 GB · 14–21 tok/s · capability 85/100

Fastest that fits: Ornith 1.0 35B (MoE) at 88–132 tok/s

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Compare against

vs MacBook Pro M4 Pro (24GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Pro (48GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (64GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 4080 (16GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (32GB) →vs MacBook Air M4 (24GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) →all comparisons →

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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.