10-06-2026, 03:33 PM
Quote:Did a small comparison this afternoon. On M3 Max with LM Studio, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality
What worked for me was pretty simple. Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at small local stacks. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.