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Benchmarked llama.cpp vs llamafile vs LM Studio vs Ollama on 3 machines (Metal/Vulkan/CUDA). Throughput is almost identical until you change how they're built.

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Disclosure : I work at Mozilla.ai on llamafile, one of the four tested. I've tried to keep this fair, and the finding isn't a llamafile win. TL;DR: across a Mac Studio (M4 Max, Metal), a Steam Deck (Vulkan), and a Linux box with an NVIDIA L40S (CUDA), the four servers land within a few percent of e…

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  1. 2026-09-17 15:56 · r/LocalLLM
    Benchmarked llama.cpp vs llamafile vs LM Studio vs Ollama on 3 machines (Metal/Vulkan/CUDA). Throughput is almost identical until you change how they're built.

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