**Splash Engine – The Fastest Local Qwen3.8 on Apple Silicon**

> How to use Splash by Inco AI in LM Studio Bionic Blog Splash Engine - the fastest local Qwen3.8 on Apple Silicon Splash Engine - the fastest local Qwen3.8 on Apple Silicon Sep 18, 2026 · By LM Studio Team What is Splash Engine? Splash is an open-source inference engine from Inco AI for running language models locally on Apple silicon. It is optimized specifically for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-27B. The engine provides GPU kernels and a memory plan tailored to each supported model. Each model ships with a dedicated DFlash 2 draft model for speculative decoding, which improves generation speed. In Inco&\#x27;s tests on a 48 GB M5 Pro, Splash delivered roughly twice the decode speed of the next-fastest engine they measured on Qwen3.8-27B: 74 tokens per second on short prompts and 54 at 32K context. With four concurrent requests on short prompts, its combined throughput reached 170 tokens per second—3.9× the next-fastest engine in their comparison. Read more about Splash in Inco&\#x27;s blog post . Use it in LM Studio Bionic Download and install LM Studio Bionic 1.1.5 or newer, then open the app. Splash requires an M3-or-newer Mac running macOS 26.4 or later with at least 36 GB of unified memory; Inco recommends 48 GB or more. Navigate to Settings \> Runtime . Under Experimental backends , click Download next to Splash (Metal) to install the engine. Download the Splash engine from Settings \> Runtime. Then go to Settings \> Explore , paste one of the following Hugging Face links into the search bar, select the model, and click Download : incoai/Qwen3.8-27B-Splash incoai/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Splash Once the download finishes, start a new session and select the model from the local model picker. Get it done with Bionic. Download LM Studio Bionic Create an account

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：ai-products
- **发布时间**：2026-09-19 19:54（北京时间）
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