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Local AI · Recipe · 1× Mac
Granite-4.2 3B MLX 4-bit with MLX on 1× Mac
Granite-4.2 3B MLX 4-bit with MLX on 1× Mac: 123 tok/s according to github.com (dataset as of Nov 3, 2026).
by 0xBakeer
Engine
- Engine
- LM Studio (MLX-Backend) 0.4.21
- Quantization
- mlx-4bit
- Model family
- Granite-4.2
- Context
- —
- Parameters
- 3B
- Creator
- 0xBakeer
- GitHub stars
- 16
- Repo updated
- Oct 19, 2026
Measurements
Every sourced value of this recipe, each with its condition and source. Bars relative to the largest value in the group.
Decode · 1 request
Prefill by context
Time to first token
Shorter is better.
What you need
- Hardware
- 1 × Mac / Apple Silicon
- Weights
- Main weightsibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b Apache-2.0
- Engine
- LM Studio (MLX-Backend) 0.4.21
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