Laptops for Local AI

Laptops and laptop GPUs ranked by the memory available to a model and the bandwidth that feeds it. A laptop GPU never inherits the desktop card of the same name — its own VRAM and power envelope are what decide performance.

Specs verified 2026-07-21 · Prices verified 2026-07-06

DeviceMemoryBandwidthLlama 3.1 8B Q4_K_MPrice$/GBTDPReleasedRuns with
MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Max, 128 GB)128 GB unified546 GB/s31–64 tok/s35 W2024metal
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max, 128 GB)128 GB unified614 GB/s34–71 tok/s35 W2026metal
MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Max, 48 GB)48 GB unified546 GB/s31–64 tok/s$3,999$83.3135 W2024metal
MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro, 24 GB)24 GB unified273 GB/s17–35 tok/s$1,999$83.2930 W2024metal
MacBook Air (M4, 16 GB)16 GB unified120 GB/s7.7–16 tok/s22 W2024metal
RTX 4090 Laptop (16 GB VRAM, 32 GB RAM)16 GB717 GB/s66–127 tok/s320 W2023cuda, vulkan
RTX 4060 Laptop (8 GB VRAM, 16 GB RAM)8 GB272 GB/s29–56 tok/s$1,099$137.38115 W2023cuda, vulkan

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