APPLE· M3 MAX

Apple M3 Max (64GB)

VRAM
64 GB
FLAGSHIP
BANDWIDTH
300
GB/S
MODELS Q4
361/428
84%
7B Q4 SPEED
~38
FAST
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q484% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~89
TOK/S
7B
~38
TOK/S
14B
~19
TOK/S
32B
~8
TOK/S
70B
~4
TOK/S
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
64 GB
BANDWIDTH
300 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
14.2 TFLOPS
TDP
60W
MEMORY
LPDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
M3 Max
MSRP
$2,799
230
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
293
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
361
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 361
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
2963
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
2667
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2151
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
1975
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1042
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
988
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
874
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
796
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
796
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
796
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
773
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
762
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
741
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
533
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
533
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
533
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
533
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
469
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
469
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
444
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
444
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
444
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
444
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
381
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
345
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
333
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
296
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
267
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
242
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
222
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
222
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
222
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
222
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
205
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
205
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
205
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
205
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
205
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
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Apple M3 Max (64GB)64 GB VRAM.

APPLE M3 MAX (64GB) SPEC
BRAND
Apple
VRAM
64 GB LPDDR5
BANDWIDTH
300 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
14.2 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
14.2 TFLOPS
TDP
60 W
ARCHITECTURE
M3 Max
MSRP
$2799
▸ AI CAPABILITY
361/ 428 models @ Q4

With 64 GB VRAM and 300 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 90B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~34 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR APPLE M3 MAX (64GB)
361 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct90B55.5 GB348.5
Hunyuan A13B80B49.4 GB2181.1
Qwen3-Coder-Next80B49.4 GB8943.0
Qwen3-Next 80B A3B80B49.4 GB8949.0
InternVL3 78B78B48.2 GB380.6
Qwen2.5-72B72.7B44.9 GB439.7
Qwen2-VL 72B72.7B44.9 GB455.5
Qwen 1.5 72B72B44.5 GB449.7
Qwen2 Math 72B72B44.5 GB449.7
Molmo 72B72B44.5 GB454.1
NVLM-D 72B72B44.5 GB448.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B70.6B43.6 GB442.4
Llama 3.3 70B70.6B43.6 GB444.8
Llama 3.1 70B70.6B43.6 GB433.2
Llama 3 70B70.6B43.6 GB444.1
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B70.6B43.6 GB443.7
Cogito 70B70B43.3 GB4
Llama 2 70B70B43.3 GB433.4
CodeLlama 70B70B43.3 GB445.7
Dolphin Llama 3 70B70B43.3 GB445.7