Splash vs mlx-vlm+MTP, Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit
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Splash vs mlx-vlm+MTP, Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit Mac Studio M4 Max 128 GB. Stock splash serve, nothing else on the GPU, 5 coding prompts, 1,024-token cap, medians: Code, no reasoning: Splash 68.0 · MLX 48.9 Code, reasoning on: 53.7 · 34.7 32K+ thinking run: 33.9 · 28.4 Short prose: 36.3 · 38.3 Splash is 20–40% faster on code on this box. Ties on prose. Their 74 tok/s is an M5 Pro number; M4 Max lands 54–68 depending on reasoning. Two things to know: default 32K output cap and 30-min request timeout will cut off a long generation. @incoai @zhijianliu_
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