MLX beats GGUF in VLM bakeoff on M5 Max: faster and better results
helloiamleonie · x · 2026-08-14
Developer Ivan Fioravanti released a vlm-bakeoff comparing MLX and GGUF inference frameworks on M5 Max. Testing models like Grok 4.6 and LFM 2.5 VL 3B, MLX (via mlx-vlm) outperformed GGUF (via llamacpp) in both speed and quality. He also submitted a PR to improve MLX and identified an issue on the llamacpp side.
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