There's a tendency to cite only decode speeds, but in practice, an LLM generates far fewer tokens than it has to read (unless you ask general knowledge questions). So the effective performance is much slower than the decode rate suggests, because a 512-token prompt already takes 6 minutes to load
Prefill is generally faster than generation, but not by much on older Mac processors. I get around 70-60 tps in prefill on my M1 Max for Muse Glimmer (not sure about the generation speed, probably between 15 and 30).
They allegedly improved this by “up to 7x” with M5 but I’m not sure about the exact numbers here.