Mac Studio (M4 Max, 64 GB) — Local LLM Performance

Mac Studio (M4 Max, 64 GB) is a Desktop running macOS, with 64 GB unified memory.

Specifications

Memory for models	64 GB unified
Memory bandwidth	546 GB/s
Memory upgradeable	No — soldered, decided at purchase
Chip	Apple M4 Max
Architecture	ARM, 3nm TSMC
Form factor	Desktop
Operating system	macOS
Released	2025
Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M	31–64 tok/s

Worth knowing before you buy

• Memory is soldered; the configuration chosen at purchase is permanent.

Models on the Mac Studio M4 Max 64 GB

• Yi 1.5 Family — Yes
• VibeThinker — Yes — comfortably
• Aya 3B (Tiny Aya) — Yes — comfortably
• StarCoder 2 — Yes — comfortably
• SmolLM3 — Yes — comfortably
• SmolLM2 — Yes — comfortably
• Qwen3-Coder — Yes — comfortably
• Qwen3.8 — Yes — comfortably
• Qwen 3.7 — Yes
• Qwen 3.6 — Yes
• Qwen 3.5 — Yes
• Qwen 3 — Yes
• Qwen 2.5 VL — Yes, but it is tight
• Qwen 2.5 Family — Yes, but it is tight
• Poolside Laguna XS 2.1 — Yes
• Phi-4 Mini — Yes — comfortably
• Phi-4 Family — Yes — comfortably
• Phi 3.5 Family — Yes — comfortably
• OLMo 2 — Yes — comfortably
• Nemotron Cascade 2 — Yes, but it is tight
• Nemotron 70B — Yes, but it is tight
• Nemotron 3 Super — Yes
• Nemotron 3 Nano Omni — Yes — comfortably
• Mistral Small 4 — Yes
• Mistral Small 3.1 — Yes — comfortably
• Mistral Small 3.2 — Yes — comfortably
• Mistral Family — Yes — comfortably
• Ministral — Yes — comfortably
• Ministral 3 — Yes — comfortably
• Magistral Small — Yes — comfortably
• Llama 4 — Yes
• Llama 4.5 — Yes
• Llama 3.3 — Yes, but it is tight
• Llama 3.2 Vision — Yes — comfortably
• Llama 3.2 Family — Yes — comfortably
• Llama 3.1 Family — Yes — comfortably
• InternLM 3 — Yes — comfortably
• IBM Granite 4.0 — Yes
• IBM Granite 4.1 — Yes — comfortably
• Granite 3.0 — Yes — comfortably
• GPT-OSS — Yes — comfortably
• GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1 — Yes
• GLM-6 — Yes — comfortably
• GLM-5 / GLM-5.1 — Yes, but it is tight
• Gemma 4 — Yes — comfortably
• Gemma 3n — Yes — comfortably
• Gemma 3 — Yes
• Gemma 2 Family — Yes — comfortably
• Falcon 3 — Yes — comfortably
• EXAONE 3.5 — Yes
• Devstral — Yes — comfortably
• DeepSeek R1 — Yes
• Cosmos 3 — Yes
• Command R Family — Yes
• Cogito v1 — Yes, but it is tight
• Codestral — Yes — comfortably
• Bonsai 27B — Yes — comfortably
• BitNet b1.58 — Yes — comfortably
• Aya Expanse — Yes

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