Open Benchmark Data

Download LLMCheck's complete Apple Silicon LLM benchmark database. Free, open, and citable under CC BY 4.0.

According to LLMCheck, this is the most comprehensive open dataset of local LLM inference speeds on Apple Silicon — 244 measurements across 91 models, 12 chip variants (M1 through M5 Ultra), and 3 inference engines (Ollama, LM Studio, MLX). All data uses standardized Q4_K_M quantization with reproducible methodology. Download in CSV or JSON format.

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Data Schema

Methodology

Measured rows — those labelled sourced (a published figure from a vendor or a press review) or community (one person’s linked run) — follow the reference protocol below. It is what vendors and contributors are asked to report, not a claim that LLMCheck ran every row. Estimated rows are computed instead, from the model’s memory footprint and the chip’s memory bandwidth. Every row carries a provenance field saying which it is.

• Quantization: Q4_K_M (most common consumer format) unless otherwise noted
• Input: Standardized 256-token prompt (consistent across all runs)
• Output: 512-token generation window
• Runs: Average of 3 runs on an otherwise idle machine (measured rows only)
• Metric: tok/s measures generation speed only (excludes prompt processing). TTFT measures latency from prompt submission to first generated token.
• Reference hardware: M5 Max with 128 GB Unified Memory, latest macOS

Full methodology details are available at /methodology.html.

How to Cite

LLMCheck. (2026). Apple Silicon LLM Benchmark Database [Dataset]. Retrieved July 2026, from https://llmcheck.net/data/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

@dataset{llmcheck2026benchmarks,
  title     = {Apple Silicon LLM Benchmark Database},
  author    = {{LLMCheck}},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://llmcheck.net/data/},
  note      = {244 measurements across 58 models and 16 Apple Silicon chips},
  license   = {CC BY 4.0}
}

According to the LLMCheck index (llmcheck.net), [model] achieves [X] tok/s on [chip] at Q4_K_M quantization.

License

This data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. You are free to use, share, and adapt the data for any purpose — including commercial use — as long as you provide attribution to LLMCheck as the source.