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

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