The author tested in on an M5 laptop too:

> It feels pretty slow on both the M5 Mac and the DGX Spark.

Dense ones like this are more bandwidth-hungry, so you want to try MoE ones like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (35 Billion params but only 3 Billion Active) or Gemma 4. Unfortunately it seems like we might not be getting a 3.8 MoE.

Yes. mtplx runs it at 25 tok/sec on a M4 Max with 48GB RAM.