SMRTR AIJul 8, 2026GitConnected

Ollama MLX Nearly Doubles LLM Speed on Your Mac: 58 to 112 tokens per second

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Ollama 0.19 nearly doubled LLM speed on Apple Silicon Macs — from 58 to 112 tokens per second — by switching from llama.cpp to Apple's MLX framework. However, most users won't see the improvement unless they download new safetensors-format models, since existing GGUF files still use the old engine.

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