Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
128 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.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @128k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q3_K_XL | fits | 88.3 GB | 256k | 6tok/sest. | 45 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 36.5 GB | 256k | 9tok/sest. | 80 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 89.7 GB | 256k | 20tok/sest. | 141 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 36.1 GB | 256k | 10tok/sest. | 80 tok/s | – |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 83.4 GB | 256k | 29tok/sest. | 313 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 64.9 GB | 128k | 27tok/sest. | 209 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | UD-Q4_K_M | fits | 79.4 GB | 256k | 23tok/sest. | 198 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | fits | 42.5 GB | 256k | 8tok/sest. | 75 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q5_K_M | fits | 87.2 GB | 444k705k with q8 cache | 26tok/sest. | 123 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 38.3 GB | 256k | 37tok/sest. | 386 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 36.1 GB | 256k | 10tok/sest. | 80 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 256k | 30tok/sest. | 469 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 92.3 GB | 128k | 6tok/sest. | 36 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 38.3 GB | 256k | 37tok/sest. | 386 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 83.4 GB | 256k | 33tok/sest. | 342 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 37.6 GB | 198k | 17tok/sest. | 182 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 44.7 GB | 384k | 8tok/sest. | 71 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | fits | 34.7 GB | 256k | 51tok/sest. | 520 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q8_0 | fits | 51.0 GB | 1024k | 50tok/sest. | 290 tok/s | chat, coding |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 15.6 GB | 128k | 38tok/sest. | 304 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 43.6 GB | 256k | 13tok/sest. | 112 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 65.8 GB | 40k | 5tok/sest. | 32 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 15.5 GB | 256k | 23tok/sest. | 195 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 14.3 GB | 256k | 26tok/sest. | 232 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q8_0 | fits | 38.5 GB | 128k | 9tok/sest. | 97 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 44.7 GB | 128k | 8tok/sest. | 71 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 65.8 GB | 128k | 5tok/sest. | 43 tok/s | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q5_K_M | fits | 87.9 GB | 128k | 4tok/sest. | 21 tok/s | – |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 34.7 GB | 256k | 10tok/sest. | 91 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 36.0 GB | 40k | 10tok/sest. | 78 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 27.5 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 118 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 27.5 GB | 40k | 13tok/sest. | 118 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 40.9 GB | 16k | 8tok/sest. | 78 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 9.6 GB | 256k | 40tok/sest. | 361 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 26.8 GB | 256k | 13tok/sest. | 119 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 30.1 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 107 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 12.5 GB | 128k | 30tok/sest. | 325 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 15.7 GB | 125k | 28tok/sest. | 434 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 23.5 GB | 128k | 15tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.3 GB | 58k103k with q8 cache | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 104.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.5 GB | 101k187k 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
- 128 GB
- GPU can use by default
- 96 GB
- GPU can use, tuned
- 120 GB
- Operating system
- macos
- Processor
- M4 Max 16-core
- Storage
- 1000 GB