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How Fast Is Local AI on Your Mac? (Every Chip, M1 to M6)

Kai· 58.4K subscribers

24d ago · English audio

Apple says the new M6 Mac mini reads AI prompts up to 13.5 times faster than an M1, and a 2021 M1 Max still writes the answer about twice as fast. A Mac running a local model does two jobs, and they have different speed limits. Reading your prompt (prefill) happens all at once and is bounded by math, so it follows the chip generation. Writing the answer (decode) happens one token at a time, and every token pulls…

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7.3×Above the channel median
136.2KViews
0Avg. views / hour · 1.1h window
18.8KMedian · 50 videos

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136.2K views ÷ a 18.8K baseline = 7.3×. Compared with 50 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:33:31 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 100

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51 videos from 31 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 597 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:31:01 GMT.

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