APPLE· M3 PRO

Apple M3 Pro (18GB)

VRAM
18 GB
MID-RANGE
BANDWIDTH
150
GB/S
MODELS Q4
266/428
62%
7B Q4 SPEED
~19
GOOD
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q462% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~44
TOK/S
7B
~19
TOK/S
14B
~10
TOK/S
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
18 GB
BANDWIDTH
150 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
7.4 TFLOPS
TDP
30W
MEMORY
Unified
ARCHITECTURE
M3 Pro
MSRP
$1,599
113
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
246
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
266
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 266
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1481
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
1333
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1075
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
988
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
521
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
494
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
437
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
398
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
398
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
398
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
386
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
381
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
370
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
267
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
267
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
235
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
235
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
222
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
222
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
222
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
222
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
190
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
172
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
167
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
148
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
133
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
133
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
133
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
121
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
111
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
111
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
111
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
111
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
103
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
103
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
103
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
103
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
103
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
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Apple M3 Pro (18GB)18 GB VRAM.

APPLE M3 PRO (18GB) SPEC
BRAND
Apple
VRAM
18 GB Unified
BANDWIDTH
150 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
7.4 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
7.4 TFLOPS
TDP
30 W
ARCHITECTURE
M3 Pro
MSRP
$1599
▸ AI CAPABILITY
266/ 428 models @ Q4

With 18 GB VRAM and 150 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 25.3B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~17 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR APPLE M3 PRO (18GB)
266 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Aria 25B A3.9B25.3B16.0 GB3464.8
Mistral-Small-24B24B15.2 GB625.0
Mistral-Small-3.1-24B24B15.2 GB628.8
Magistral Small 24B24B15.2 GB647.0
Devstral Small 2 24B24B15.2 GB633.4
LFM2 24B A2B24B15.2 GB6719.1
Codestral 22B22.2B14.1 GB650.1
Devstral Small 22B22.2B14.1 GB635.5
Mistral Small 22B22.2B14.1 GB635.2
SOLAR-Pro 22B22.1B14.0 GB644.2
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B21B13.3 GB44
GPT-OSS 20B21B13.3 GB3752.9
Reka Flash 321B13.3 GB636.2
Reka Flash 3.121B13.3 GB633.4
InternLM2 20B19.8B12.6 GB745.1
InternLM2.5 20B19.8B12.6 GB750.9
Ling-lite 16.8B16.8B10.8 GB56
DeepSeek V2 Lite 16B16B10.3 GB5638.0
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite 15.7B15.7B10.1 GB5643.0
DeepSeek-VL2 Small 16B15.7B10.1 GB5643.1