Recipe

ternary-bonsai-8b-unpacked-2bit-ternary-apple-max-128gb-mlx-tp1

ternary-bonsai-8b-unpacked-2bit-ternary-apple-max-128gb-mlx-tp1

Observed LocalMaxxing leaderboard run. Evidence for compatibility, not an executable launch contract.

Record

Status
candidate
Source
localmaxxing
Engine
mlx
Accelerators
1
Tensor parallel
1
Context tokens
2,048
Max concurrency
1
chat
unknown
reasoning
unknown
tools
unknown
vision
unknown

Hugging Face model card

Identity

https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-8B-mlx-2bit
Repository
prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-8B-mlx-2bit
Status
known
Link type
Exact Hub repository

Public Hugging Face repository confirmed by the Hub API.

Candidate: useful compatibility or speed evidence. The registry does not offer Run until promotion requirements are met.

Observed configuration

mlx

Evidence only · candidate · reference

Candidate evidence — not a Run contract

Source
https://www.localmaxxing.com/en/runs/cmoqtxiun000gky047ofznawj

No tokenized launch fields. This is measured or documented compatibility, not a Docker launch.

Measured speed

ConcurrencyContextPrefillDecodeTTFT msStatusSweep
12,0481,100135250observedternary-bonsai-8b-unpacked-2bit-ternary-apple-max-128gb-mlx-tp1-sweep

Remaining fields

Identity, launch, related records, and measured speed are shown above. This is the rest of the normalized record.

hardware count
1
hardware id
apple-max-128gb
id
ternary-bonsai-8b-unpacked-2bit-ternary-apple-max-128gb-mlx-tp1
model instance id
prism-ml-ternary-bonsai-8b-mlx-2bit--2bit-ternary
recipe source
localmaxxing
schema version
local-ai-registry/v1
speed sweep ids
ternary-bonsai-8b-unpacked-2bit-ternary-apple-max-128gb-mlx-tp1-sweep
status
candidate

capabilities

engine

name
mlx

serving

max concurrency
1
max context tokens
2,048
tensor parallel
1
Provenance & metadata (3)

facts

capabilities.chat · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
capabilities.chat · reason capability-not-verified
capabilities.chat · state unknown
capabilities.reasoning · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
capabilities.reasoning · reason capability-not-verified
capabilities.reasoning · state unknown
capabilities.tools · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
capabilities.tools · reason capability-not-verified
capabilities.tools · state unknown
capabilities.vision · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
capabilities.vision · reason capability-not-verified
capabilities.vision · state unknown
engine.graph mode · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
engine.graph mode · reason runtime-detail-not-published
engine.graph mode · state unknown
serving.kv cache tokens · provenance · captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z
serving.kv cache tokens · reason kv-cache-capacity-not-published
serving.kv cache tokens · state unknown

metadata

localmaxxing · hardware label
M4 Max
localmaxxing · notes
Manual decode bench: 125-135 tok/s steady (peak 135), sustained 4k generation at 124 tok/s with no degradation. Prefill 1.1k tok/s for long contexts. TTFT 150-360 ms. Long-context 16k: ~13.5s prefill then 125 tok/s decode. Ternary 2-bit MLX quant via mlx_vlm.server. vera-eval: B grade 1244.5/1580.
localmaxxing · run id
cmoqtxiun000gky047ofznawj

provenance

captured at
2026-08-30T09:10:02Z

sources

captured atkindurl
2026-08-30T09:10:02Znormalized-recipewww.localmaxxing.com/en/runs/cmoqtxiun000gky047ofznawj