Laptop
MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro, 24 GB) — Local LLM Performance
MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro, 24 GB) is a Laptop running macOS, with 24 GB unified memory.
Specifications
- Memory for models
- 24 GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- Memory upgradeable
- No — soldered, decided at purchase
- Chip
- Apple M4 Pro
- Architecture
- ARM, 3nm TSMC
- Form factor
- Laptop
- Operating system
- macOS
- Released
- 2024
- Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M
- 17–35 tok/s
- Price
- $1,999 (checked 2026-07-06)
Worth knowing before you buy
- Unified memory is soldered and cannot be upgraded after purchase.
- 24 GB is the practical ceiling for a single mid-size model plus a long context.
Models on the MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24 GB
- Yi 1.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- VibeThinkerYes — comfortably
- Aya 3B (Tiny Aya)Yes — comfortably
- StarCoder 2Yes, but it is tight
- SmolLM3Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM2Yes — comfortably
- Qwen3-CoderYes
- Qwen3.8Yes — comfortably
- Qwen 3.6Yes — comfortably
- Qwen 3.5Yes — comfortably
- Qwen 3Yes, but it is tight
- Qwen 2.5 VLYes — comfortably
- Qwen 2.5 FamilyYes, but it is tight
- Poolside Laguna XS 2.1Yes, but it is tight
- Phi-4 MiniYes — comfortably
- Phi-4 FamilyYes, but it is tight
- Phi 3.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- OLMo 2Yes, but it is tight
- North Mini CodeYes
- Nex-N2Yes, but it is tight
- Nex-N2.5Yes, but it is tight
- Nemotron Cascade 2Yes
- Nemotron 3 Nano OmniYes
- Mistral Small 3.1Yes, but it is tight
- Mistral Small 3.2Yes, but it is tight
- Mistral FamilyYes, but it is tight
- MinistralYes — comfortably
- Ministral 3Yes, but it is tight
- MiniCPM-VYes — comfortably
- Magistral SmallYes, but it is tight
- Llama 3.2 VisionYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.1 FamilyYes — comfortably
- LFM2.5Yes, but it is tight
- InternLM 3Yes, but it is tight
- IBM Granite 4.0Yes, but it is tight
- IBM Granite 4.2Yes — comfortably
- IBM Granite 4.1Yes — comfortably
- Granite 3.0Yes — comfortably
- GPT-OSSYes
- GLM-5 / GLM-5.1No
- GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1Yes — comfortably
- Gemma 4Yes, but it is tight
- Gemma 3nYes — comfortably
- Gemma 3Yes
- Gemma 2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Falcon 3Yes — comfortably
- EXAONE 3.5Yes — comfortably
- DevstralYes, but it is tight
- DeepSeek R1Yes, but it is tight
- DeepSeek-OCRYes — comfortably
- Cosmos 3Yes
- Cogito v1Yes, but it is tight
- CodestralYes
- Bonsai 27BYes — comfortably
- BitNet b1.58Yes — comfortably
- Aya ExpanseYes — comfortably