Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB

64 GB unified · 546 GB/s

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What it runs

Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @128kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.5 GB256k

9tok/sest.

80 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits43.5 GB256k

32tok/sest.

141 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.1 GB256k

10tok/sest.

80 tok/s–
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits42.5 GB193k256k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

75 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits41.6 GB357k568k with q8 cache

40tok/sest.

123 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.3 GB256k

37tok/sest.

386 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.1 GB256k

10tok/sest.

80 tok/s–
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits29.1 GB256k

30tok/sest.

469 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.3 GB256k

37tok/sest.

386 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits37.6 GB198k

17tok/sest.

182 tok/schat, coding
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB148k270k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

71 tok/s–
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits34.7 GB256k

51tok/sest.

520 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits40.1 GB714k973k with q8 cache

60tok/sest.

290 tok/schat, coding
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits15.6 GB128k

38tok/sest.

304 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits43.6 GB172k256k with q8 cache

13tok/sest.

112 tok/schat, coding
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits15.5 GB256k

23tok/sest.

195 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits14.3 GB256k

26tok/sest.

232 tok/schat, coding
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits38.5 GB128k

9tok/sest.

97 tok/s–
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB128k

8tok/sest.

71 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.7 GB209k256k with q8 cache

10tok/sest.

91 tok/schat
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.0 GB40k

10tok/sest.

78 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits27.5 GB128k

13tok/sest.

118 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits27.5 GB40k

13tok/sest.

118 tok/schat, coding
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits40.9 GB16k

8tok/sest.

78 tok/schat
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.6 GB256k

40tok/sest.

361 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits26.8 GB256k

13tok/sest.

119 tok/schat, coding
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits30.1 GB128k

12tok/sest.

107 tok/schat, coding
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits12.5 GB128k

30tok/sest.

325 tok/schat, coding, long documents
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits15.7 GB125k

28tok/sest.

434 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits23.5 GB128k

15tok/sest.

128 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.3 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run104.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run77.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.5 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run53.4 GB––––
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB72k116k with q8 cache–––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

MXFP4won't run64.9 GB––––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run66.6 GB27k51k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB73k117k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB40k–––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB112k128k with q8 cache–––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run81.0 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––

Specifications

From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.

Chip
Apple M4 Max (40-core GPU)
Memory bus
512-bit
Memory bandwidth
546 GB/s
FP16 compute
16.16 TFLOPS
Software
Metal
Unified memory
64 GB
GPU can use by default
48 GB
GPU can use, tuned
56 GB
Operating system
macos
Processor
M4 Max 16-core
Storage
1000 GB

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