Kapitsa Apple Silicon Inference Engine shows faster prompt reads and writes for Qwen, Nemotron, Flint, and Clover models on MacBook M5 Max; Flash-Next 180B and Clover 35B join benchmarks
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Original headline: "Benchmarking: Qwen 27B, 35B, QFN180B; Nemotron Bolt 74B, Flint40B & Clover 35B (Q4 + KFlash) on MacBook M5 Max 2026 with Kapitsa (Apple Silicon Inference Engine)"
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- Nov 1, 22:47 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Benchmarking: Qwen 27B, 35B, QFN180B; Nemotron Bolt 74B, Flint40B & Clover 35B (Q4 + KFlash) on MacBook M5 Max 2026 with Kapitsa (Apple Silicon Inference Engine)