How we got this number
Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 6.6 GB. The Mac mini M6 (16GB) moves 170 GB/s, so the ceiling is 26 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 Qwen3.5 9B
Other models on the Mac mini M6 (16GB)
| lfm 2.5 8B (A1B) | Fast | 111 tok/s |
| Qwen 3 1.7B | Fast | 97 tok/s |
| Granite 3.1 moe 1B | Fast | 97 tok/s |
| minicpm v4.6 1B | Fast | 85 tok/s |
| Gemma 2 2B | Fast | 85 tok/s |
| codeGemma 2B | Fast | 85 tok/s |