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MacBook Pro M4 Max 16-inch

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MacBook Pro M4 Max 16-inch

48 GB$3999~36.0 GB usable

Type
Unified memory (SoC)
Provider
Apple ★
Unified memory
48 GB
Price
$3999

Usable for models (est.): 36.0 GB · Price per GB: $83

Popular models that run here

The largest models this device holds fully in memory, each at its best-fitting quantization.

Every model: does it fit?

35 of 41 models run fully in memory, 2 more with partial offload. Estimated at a 4096-token context. How fit is calculated

ModelParamsBest fitMemory needed (est.)Fit
DeepSeek-V4-Pro (MoE)1600B—~480.0 GB✕ Does not fit
DeepSeek-V3 (MoE)671B—~201.3 GB✕ Does not fit
Llama 3.1 405B405B—~121.5 GB✕ Does not fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (MoE)284B—~85.2 GB✕ Does not fit
Qwen 3 235B-A22B (MoE)235B—~70.5 GB◐ Partial offload
Mistral Large 2 (MoE)141B—~42.3 GB◐ Partial offload
Qwen 2.5 72B72BINT2~21.6 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3 70B70.6BINT2~21.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.3 70B70.6BINT2~21.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.1 70B70BINT2~21.0 GB✓ Runs
Llama 2 70B70BINT2~21.0 GB✓ Runs
Falcon 40B40BFP4~24.0 GB✓ Runs
Qwen 2.5 32B32BFP4~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Qwen 3 32B32BFP4~19.2 GB✓ Runs
OLMo 3 32B32BFP4~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 4 31B31BFP4~18.6 GB✓ Runs
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE)30BFP8~36.0 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 3 27B27BFP8~32.4 GB✓ Runs
Phi-414BFP16~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Llama 2 13B13BFP16~31.2 GB✓ Runs
OLMo 2 13B13BFP16~31.2 GB✓ Runs
Mistral Nemo 12B12BFP16~28.8 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 3 12B12BFP16~28.8 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 2 9B9BFP16~21.6 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3 8B8BFP16~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.1 8B8BFP16~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Qwen 3 8B8BFP16~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.3 8B8BFP16~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 2 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Mistral 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Qwen 2.5 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Falcon 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
OLMo 2 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
OLMo-7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Mistral Small 3 7B7BFP32~33.6 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 3 4B4BFP32~19.2 GB✓ Runs
Phi-33.8BFP32~18.2 GB✓ Runs
Phi-3-mini-128K3.8BFP32~18.2 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.2 3B3BFP32~14.4 GB✓ Runs
Llama 3.2 1B1BFP32~4.8 GB✓ Runs
Gemma 3 1B1BFP32~4.8 GB✓ Runs

Measured throughput

ModelQuantizationTokens/sec (measured)
Qwen 2.5 7BQ4_K_M75
Gemma 3 27BQ4_K_M27
Qwen 3 32BQ4_K_M23
Llama 3.3 70BQ4_K_M15

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