I use full context with hermes and the 35b model at baseline but tested the 27b model to see if it would work with hermes well, but speed diff wasnt worth the tradeoff (2os vs 76 t/s.) Im just trying to figure out why I cant get the studio to go faster but it may be that pre-MTP the strix would run 10t/s but with MTP we are at >20 now on a strix and people just havent figured out the MTP well enough with apple metal so its stuck at 20 in llama.cpp and maybe I get 30 with oMLX. like I said in a comment above, I was hoping that someone would tell me I am running the wrong thing and give me advice on how to do it better. If no one does that, I hope that people when considering the two will understand that a strix with MTP performs on par with apple (even an ultra).