Breaking VM Barriers: Apple Silicon LLM Inference Runs 16x Faster
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-08-12
By introducing a custom compatibility layer within Apple Silicon macOS VMs, developers have significantly accelerated llama.cpp LLM inference by selecting newer Metal GPU kernels.
Tests show an 11 to 16-fold increase in inference speed. On an M1 Ultra, running the TinyLlama model achieves 98% of bare-metal speed for prompt processing.
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