37 LLMs Benchmarked on MacBook Air M5 32GB: Open-Source Tool for Mac-Native AI Performance Testing
r/LocalLLaMA (77↑, 34cmts)·medium signal
A practitioner benchmarked 37 models across 10 families on the M5 Air (32GB, 10 CPU/10 GPU cores) and released an open-source tool so others can reproduce the benchmarks on their own Macs. The post (77↑, 34cmts) provides concrete tok/s data for every model, filling a gap in the M5's benchmarking coverage — the M5 Air has been available for weeks but systematic local LLM benchmarks have been scattered. This is the first comprehensive cross-family comparison on M5 silicon.