How we got this number
Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 4.7 GB. The Mac mini M5 Pro (24GB) moves 307 GB/s, so the ceiling is 65 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 80%, calibrated against a measured Mac run. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.
Faster machines for DeepSeek-R1 7B
Other models on the Mac mini M5 Pro (24GB)
| lfm 2.5 8B (A1B) | Fast | 120+ tok/s |
| minicpm v4.6 1B | Fast | 120+ tok/s |
| DeepSeek-R1 1.5B | Fast | 120+ tok/s |
| Llama 3.2 1B | Fast | 120+ tok/s |
| Llama 3.2 3B | Fast | 120+ tok/s |
| Qwen2.5 3B | Fast | 120+ tok/s |