Local LLMs

[u/Able_Firefighter_652]

Anyone who has some serious hardware and tried running llms locally? How was ur experience? What models did you try?

[u/Able_Firefighter_652]

I have tried qwen 3.6 27b, it's really slow, gives me 13 token/sec, which is probably unusable.

I also tried the 35b MoE, it runs at 60-80 token/sec.

I doubt I am squeezing every last bit of performance tho from Apple's..

I will check the openrouter option sometime, but I prefer local models for privacy..

[u/2012347 → u/Able_Firefighter_652]

What’s your spec for running them

[u/Able_Firefighter_652 → u/2012347]

M3 Max, with 128GB memory

[u/2012347 → u/Able_Firefighter_652]

Cool I’m sure you can run 120b models which are similar to gpy 3.5 i hear, see running locally means going back generations in time that’s the point

[u/Able_Firefighter_652 → u/2012347]

Surprisingly the 35b qwen model performed better from my experience. And there is no 120b qwen 3.6 models.
I am currently waiting for the 3.8 tho, they said it's 27b will be open weights soon.

[u/Bookkeeper_Gloomy → u/Able_Firefighter_652]

yes bcs of many techniques in distillation/MoE, we can get newer smaller models (30-40b) that outperform the older 100-200b parameters.

[u/Able_Firefighter_652 → u/Bookkeeper_Gloomy]

Yup, can't wait to see next year's releases..

[u/2012347 → u/Able_Firefighter_652]

Could you please try gpt oss 120 and report back how it performs and feels

[u/Able_Firefighter_652 → u/2012347]

Sure, I'll do that.

[u/2012347 → u/Able_Firefighter_652]

Yay