M5 Mac Studio with 256GB Runs DeepSeek-V4.1 Quantized at 100 tok/s

A developer ran a 3.0bpw iQ-quantized DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on a 256GB M5 Mac Studio via MLX Serve, achieving 100 tok/s decoding and 93% accuracy, demonstrating the viability of local LLM deployment on high-end Mac hardware.

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