Laptop
MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Max, 48 GB) — Local LLM Performance
MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Max, 48 GB) is a Laptop running macOS, with 48 GB unified memory.
Specifications
- Memory for models
- 48 GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 546 GB/s
- Memory upgradeable
- No — soldered, decided at purchase
- Chip
- Apple M4 Max
- Architecture
- ARM, 3nm TSMC
- Form factor
- Laptop
- Operating system
- macOS
- Released
- 2024
- Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M
- 31–64 tok/s
- Price
- $3,999 (checked 2026-07-06)
Worth knowing before you buy
- Unified memory is soldered and cannot be upgraded after purchase.
- macOS reserves a share of unified memory for the system, so not all 48 GB is available to a model.
Models on the MacBook Pro M4 Max 48 GB
- Yi 1.5 FamilyYes
- VibeThinkerYes — comfortably
- Aya 3B (Tiny Aya)Yes — comfortably
- StarCoder 2Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM3Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM2Yes — comfortably
- Qwen3-CoderYes, but it is tight
- Qwen3.8Yes
- Qwen 3.6Yes
- Qwen 3.5Yes
- Qwen 3Yes
- Qwen 2.5 VLYes — comfortably
- Qwen 2.5 FamilyYes
- Poolside Laguna XS 2.1Yes
- Phi-4 MiniYes — comfortably
- Phi-4 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Phi 3.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- OLMo 2Yes — comfortably
- North Mini CodeYes, but it is tight
- Nex-N2Yes
- Nex-N2.5Yes
- Nemotron Cascade 2Yes
- Nemotron 70BYes, but it is tight
- Nemotron 3 Nano OmniYes, but it is tight
- Mistral Small 3.1Yes
- Mistral Small 3.2Yes
- Mistral FamilyYes
- MinistralYes — comfortably
- Ministral 3Yes — comfortably
- MiniCPM-VYes — comfortably
- Magistral SmallYes
- Llama 3.3Yes, but it is tight
- Llama 3.2 VisionYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.1 FamilyYes — comfortably
- LFM2.5Yes — comfortably
- InternLM 3Yes — comfortably
- IBM Granite 4.0Yes
- IBM Granite 4.2Yes, but it is tight
- IBM Granite 4.1Yes, but it is tight
- Granite 3.0Yes — comfortably
- GPT-OSSYes — comfortably
- GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1Yes
- GLM-5 / GLM-5.1No
- Gemma 4Yes, but it is tight
- Gemma 3nYes — comfortably
- Gemma 3Yes
- Gemma 2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Falcon 3Yes — comfortably
- EXAONE 3.5Yes
- DevstralYes
- DeepSeek R1Yes
- DeepSeek-OCRYes — comfortably
- Cosmos 3Yes — comfortably
- Command R FamilyYes, but it is tight
- Cogito v1Yes
- CodestralYes — comfortably
- Bonsai 27BYes — comfortably
- BitNet b1.58Yes — comfortably
- Aya ExpanseYes