Benchmark: Swapping to MoE model boosts local agent throughput 8x
AIForOver50Plus · reddit · 2026-08-21
A benchmark on a MacBook Pro M3 Max comparing a dense 27B model against a 30B-A3B MoE model reveals massive concurrency gains for the MoE. While the dense model flatlines near 20 tok/s due to memory bandwidth constraints (reading all 27B params per token), the MoE model scales linearly with concurrent agents (reaching 158.6 tok/s with 8 agents) by activating only 3B params per token. The MoE also drastically reduces time-to-first-token (0.8s vs 32.2s), eliminating the "frozen" feeling during heavy loads.
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