Running DeepSeek v4.1 locally on M5 Max at 17 tokens/s, project open-sourced
Argonautlabs · hn · 2026-09-16
Argonautlabs shared a test of running DeepSeek v4.1 locally on an M5 Max, achieving about 17 tokens/s, and open-sourced the related project argodrive on GitHub. A useful data point for anyone tracking Mac local LLM inference performance.
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