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New to local llms. Are these numbers normal?

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I have a MacBook Air M5 with 16GB RAM, and I’m currently running unisloth Qwen 3.8 27B Q3_xxs on llama.cpp with KV cache 8. I’m pretty new to all this, so I’m wondering if ~9 t/s at 8k context sounds about right for this setup, and whether that’s enough for general chatting/inquiries. Also, should…

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  1. 2026-09-07 04:45 · r/LocalLLM
    New to local llms. Are these numbers normal?

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