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Runs compared: 131
Like-for-like pair: 1
Chips available: 16

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Side A

Side B

Model

Runtime

Runtime version

Quantisation

Backend

Prefill size

Decode size

Cooldown

2 runs vs 129 runs · 1 like-for-like pair

Held fixedPrefill: PP512Decode: TG128

Apple M4 has only 2 matching runs. Treat its figures as indicative.
These figures mix different models. Pick a model for a like-for-like comparison.
A side mixes quantisations. Pick a quantisation to compare the same weights.
The sides differ in conditioning, decode workload, harness schema. Ratios may reflect benchmark protocol rather than the chip.

Chip comparison

Apple M4 vs Apple M5 Pro

Ratios read side A relative to side B. Geometric mean over 1 like-for-like pair.

Decode: 0.19×-80.9%
Prefill: 0.05×-95.0%

Side A

Apple M4

2 runs

1 contributor

Latest 11 Sep 2026

Decode · TG128: 15.7tok/s median
best 15.8 · worst 15.7
Prefill · PP512: 232tok/s median
best 259 · worst 205

Models: gemma-4-E4B-it
Runtimes: BaseRT
Versions: BaseRT 0.2.4
Quantisations: Q4
Backends: Metal
Cooldown: off, on
Conditioning: idle_reset_then_warm, warmup_only
Decode workload: TG128
Harness schema: basert-benchmark-harness/1

Side B

Apple M5 Pro

129 runs

2 contributors

Latest 18 Sep 2026

Decode · TG128: 72.8tok/s median
best 2,068.0 · worst 10.6
Prefill · PP512: 1,852tok/s median
best 190,107 · worst 327

Models: gemma-3-1b-it, gemma-4-26B-A4B-it, gemma-4-E2B-it, gemma-4-E4B-it, Gemma-4-E4B-It, gpt-oss-20b, Gpt-Oss-20B, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, Muse-Glimmer-30B, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B, Qwen3-0.6B, Qwen3-1.7B, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-4B, Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-8B, Qwen3-8B-base-q2, Qwen3-8B-base-q3, Qwen3-8B-base-q5, Qwen3-8B-base-q6, Qwen3.5-2B, Qwen3.5-2B-Base, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Qwen3.6-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3.8-27B, Tinystories Lay8 Hs512 Hd8 33M, tinystories-lay8-hs512-hd8-33M
Runtimes: BaseRTllama.cpp
Versions: BaseRT 0.2.4, BaseRT 0.2.5, llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da), llama.cpp b9960 (a935fbffe)
Quantisations: BF16, F16, mxfp4, passthrough_gguf, Q2, Q2_K, Q3, Q3_K_M, Q4, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q4_K_M, Q5, Q5_K_M, Q6, Q6_K, Q8, Q8_0
Backends: BLAS + Metal, Metal
Cooldown: off, on
Conditioning: idle_reset_then_warm, runtime_native_warmup, warmup_only
Decode workload: TG128, TG128 @ 1 ctx
Harness schema: basert-benchmark-harness/1, computearena-measurements/1

What differs besides the chip

Facet	Apple M4	Apple M5 Pro
Model	gemma-4-E4B-it	gemma-3-1b-it, gemma-4-26B-A4B-it, gemma-4-E2B-it, gemma-4-E4B-it, Gemma-4-E4B-It, gpt-oss-20b, Gpt-Oss-20B, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, Muse-Glimmer-30B, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B, Qwen3-0.6B, Qwen3-1.7B, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-4B, Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-8B, Qwen3-8B-base-q2, Qwen3-8B-base-q3, Qwen3-8B-base-q5, Qwen3-8B-base-q6, Qwen3.5-2B, Qwen3.5-2B-Base, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Qwen3.6-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3.8-27B, Tinystories Lay8 Hs512 Hd8 33M, tinystories-lay8-hs512-hd8-33M
Runtime	BaseRT	BaseRT, llama.cpp
Runtime version	BaseRT 0.2.4	BaseRT 0.2.4, BaseRT 0.2.5, llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da), llama.cpp b9960 (a935fbffe)
Quantisation	Q4	BF16, F16, mxfp4, passthrough_gguf, Q2, Q2_K, Q3, Q3_K_M, Q4, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q4_K_M, Q5, Q5_K_M, Q6, Q6_K, Q8, Q8_0
Backend	Metal	BLAS + Metal, Metal
Conditioning	idle_reset_then_warm, warmup_only	idle_reset_then_warm, runtime_native_warmup, warmup_only
Decode workload	TG128	TG128, TG128 @ 1 ctx
Harness schema	basert-benchmark-harness/1	basert-benchmark-harness/1, computearena-measurements/1

Like-for-like pairs

Each row is a configuration present on both sides. Values are per-cell medians; ratios read Apple M4 relative to Apple M5 Pro.

Configuration	Decode A	Decode B	Ratio	Prefill A	Prefill B	Ratio	Runs A / B
gemma-4-E4B-it BaseRTQ4	15.7	82.3	0.19×	232	4,646	0.05×	2 / 2

Side A · Apple M4

Top 2 of 2 runs by decode throughput.

Model / format	Chip / backend	Decode	Prefill	Contributor	Date	Report
basecompute/gemma-4-E4B-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M4 Metal	15.8 TG128	259 PP512	pyopyo	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/gemma-4-E4B-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M4 Metal	15.7 TG128	205 PP512	pyopyo	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark

Side B · Apple M5 Pro

Top 25 of 129 runs by decode throughput.

Model / format	Chip / backend	Decode	Prefill	Contributor	Date	Report
ivnle/tinystories-lay8-hs512-hd8-33M BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	2,068.0 TG128	190,107 PP512	arki05	17 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
Tinystories Lay8 Hs512 Hd8 33M llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da)Q4_0	Apple M5 Pro BLAS + Metal	1,443.3 TG128	124,181 PP512	arki05	17 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	516.8 TG128	20,778 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	512.0 TG128	20,603 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.5Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	481.5 TG128 @ 1 ctx	19,595 PP512	isu	18 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
Qwen3-0.6B llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da)Q4_K_M	Apple M5 Pro BLAS + Metal	358.3 TG128	14,509 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
Qwen3-0.6B llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da)Q4_K_M	Apple M5 Pro BLAS + Metal	358.1 TG128	14,344 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
Qwen3-0.6B llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da)Q4_K_M	Apple M5 Pro BLAS + Metal	356.2 TG128	14,552 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	350.2 TG128	20,537 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	349.8 TG128	20,366 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-0.6B BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	311.0 TG128	18,474 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/gemma-3-1b-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	293.1 TG128	15,066 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
Qwen3-0.6B llama.cpp b10809 (5266f24da)Q8_0	Apple M5 Pro BLAS + Metal	283.0 TG128	14,942 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/gemma-3-1b-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	270.4 TG128	13,717 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-1.7B BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	235.4 TG128	8,040 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	229.1 TG128	11,673 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3.5-2B-Base BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	218.2 TG128	2,645 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3.5-2B BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	217.7 TG128	2,641 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-1.7B BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	210.3 TG128	7,268 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/gemma-3-1b-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	210.3 TG128	15,061 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	206.3 TG128	10,528 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	205.3 TG128	12,067 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/gemma-4-E2B-it BaseRT 0.2.4Q4	Apple M5 Pro Metal	144.6 TG128	13,240 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3-1.7B BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	139.7 TG128	8,043 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark
basecompute/Qwen3.5-2B-Base BaseRT 0.2.4Q8	Apple M5 Pro Metal	131.4 TG128	2,642 PP512	arki05	11 Sep 2026	View Benchmark