Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
$4,999
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| Component | Selection | Price | Where | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine | Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB 128 GB unified · 546 GB/s | $4,999 | eBay | Buy |
| Total | $4,999 | |||
What this build runs
The most precise quant that fits, at 8k context. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @8k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 91.5 GB | 58k103k with q8 cache | 28tok/sest. | 101 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q3_K_XL | fits | 84.7 GB | 256k | 7tok/sest. | 52 tok/s | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 72.7 GB | 101k187k with q8 cache | 37tok/sest. | 228 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 28.3 GB | 256k | 12tok/sest. | 113 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | Q6_K | fits | 95.0 GB | 40k64k with q8 cache | 25tok/sest. | 299 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 27.9 GB | 256k | 12tok/sest. | 113 tok/s | – |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 60.0 GB | 128k | 62tok/sest. | 507 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 79.9 GB | 256k | 48tok/sest. | 756 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | Q5_K_M | fits | 90.8 GB | 256k | 22tok/sest. | 263 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | fits | 32.4 GB | 256k | 10tok/sest. | 99 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q6_K | fits | 93.4 GB | 100k159k with q8 cache | 35tok/sest. | 391 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.2 GB | 256k | 64tok/sest. | 969 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 27.9 GB | 256k | 12tok/sest. | 113 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | fits | 26.0 GB | 256k | 47tok/sest. | 738 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q6_K | fits | 94.3 GB | 17k31k with q8 cache | 13tok/sest. | 149 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.2 GB | 256k | 64tok/sest. | 969 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 79.9 GB | 256k | 63tok/sest. | 950 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 30.7 GB | 198k | 37tok/sest. | 542 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 384k | 13tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | fits | 33.3 GB | 256k | 62tok/sest. | 1010 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 12.1 GB | 128k | 81tok/sest. | 701 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q8_0 | fits | 49.4 GB | 1024k | 65tok/sest. | 921 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 31.6 GB | 256k | 53tok/sest. | 701 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.1 GB | 40k | 10tok/sest. | 87 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 12.9 GB | 256k | 27tok/sest. | 257 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 9.8 GB | 256k | 36tok/sest. | 326 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q8_0 | fits | 28.4 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 115 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 35.1 GB | 128k | 10tok/sest. | 91 tok/s | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q8_0 | fits | 73.0 GB | 80k128k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 43 tok/s | – |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 15.3 GB | 256k | 23tok/sest. | 211 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 16.5 GB | 40k | 21tok/sest. | 197 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 9.9 GB | 128k | 36tok/sest. | 344 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 9.9 GB | 40k | 36tok/sest. | 344 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 16.7 GB | 16k | 21tok/sest. | 198 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 5.1 GB | 256k | 74tok/sest. | 656 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.1 GB | 256k | 35tok/sest. | 321 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 10.6 GB | 128k | 33tok/sest. | 319 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 8.5 GB | 128k | 42tok/sest. | 395 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 9.4 GB | 125k | 145tok/sest. | 2304 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 7.8 GB | 128k | 46tok/sest. | 355 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.2 GB | 32k | 562tok/sest. | 4823 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.5 GB | 256k | 381tok/sest. | 3318 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 2.1 GB | 256k | 228tok/sest. | 1361 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 2.6 GB | 128k | 167tok/sest. | 1518 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 3.5 GB | 128k | 117tok/sest. | 1003 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 3.8 GB | 128k | 105tok/sest. | 1010 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 3.8 GB | 32k | 105tok/sest. | 891 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 4.6 GB | 128k | 83tok/sest. | 668 tok/s | chat, coding |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 4.9 GB | 128k | 78tok/sest. | 718 tok/s | chat, coding |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.0 GB | 128k | 76tok/sest. | 1210 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 12.8 GB | 128k | 76tok/sest. | 1110 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-8bit | fits | 17.5 GB | 128k | 61tok/sest. | 936 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 8.6 GB | 128k | 41tok/sest. | 383 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 9.6 GB | 128k | 37tok/sest. | 355 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.1 GB | 256k | 35tok/sest. | 321 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 10.3 GB | 128k | 34tok/sest. | 278 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | fits | 11.9 GB | 64k | 29tok/sest. | 278 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 61.3 GB | 64k | 21tok/sest. | 171 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 16.8 GB | 128k | 21tok/sest. | 193 tok/s | chat |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 67.7 GB | 128k | 20tok/sest. | 171 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 130 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 40k | 13tok/sest. | 130 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 40k | 13tok/sest. | 130 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 25.2 GB | 128k | 13tok/sest. | 128 tok/s | – |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 31.6 GB | 128k | 11tok/sest. | 103 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 73.0 GB | 80k128k with q8 cache | 5tok/sest. | 43 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q5_K_M | fits | 85.6 GB | 37k69k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 24 tok/s | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 377.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 377.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 147.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 155.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | won't run | 127.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 205.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 421.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 435.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 747.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 579.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 579.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 579.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 579.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 131.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 131.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 117.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 248.3 GB | – | – | – | – |