I have seen ~1,300 tokens/sec of total throughout with Llama 3 8B on a MacBook Pro. So no, you don’t halve the performance. But running batched inference takes

I have seen ~1,300 tokens/sec of total throughout with Llama 3 8B on a MacBook Pro. So no, you don’t halve the performance. But running batched inference takes more memory, so you have to use shorter contexts than if you weren’t batching.