APPLE· M5 MAX

Apple M5 Max (64GB)

VRAM
64 GB
FLAGSHIP
BANDWIDTH
614
GB/S
MODELS Q4
281/331
85%
7B Q4 SPEED
~78
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q485% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

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

3B
~182
TOK/S
7B
~78
TOK/S
14B
~39
TOK/S
32B
~17
TOK/S
70B
~8
TOK/S
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
64 GB
BANDWIDTH
614 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
18 TFLOPS
TDP
45W
MEMORY
Unified
ARCHITECTURE
M5 Max
213
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
263
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
281
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 281
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
5458
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
4401
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
4043
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
1629
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1629
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
1629
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1582
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
1516
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
1092
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1092
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1092
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
961
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
910
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
705
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
682
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
606
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
546
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
546
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
496
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
455
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
455
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
420
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
420
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
420
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
420
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
420
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT
364
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
364
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
341
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
321
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
319
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
303
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
287
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
273
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
273
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
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Apple M5 Max (64GB)64 GB VRAM.

APPLE M5 MAX (64GB) SPEC
BRAND
Apple
VRAM
64 GB Unified
BANDWIDTH
614 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
18 TFLOPS
TDP
45 W
ARCHITECTURE
M5 Max
▸ AI CAPABILITY
281/ 331 models @ Q4

With 64 GB VRAM and 614 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 90B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~70 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR APPLE M5 MAX (64GB)
281 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct90B55.5 GB648.5
Hunyuan A13B80B49.4 GB4281.1
Qwen3-Coder-Next80B49.4 GB18243.0
Qwen2.5-72B72.7B44.9 GB839.7
Qwen2-VL 72B72.7B44.9 GB855.5
Qwen 1.5 72B72B44.5 GB849.7
Qwen2 Math 72B72B44.5 GB849.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B70.6B43.6 GB842.4
Llama 3.3 70B70.6B43.6 GB844.8
Llama 3.1 70B70.6B43.6 GB833.2
Llama 3 70B70.6B43.6 GB844.1
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B70.6B43.6 GB843.7
Cogito 70B70B43.3 GB8
Llama 2 70B70B43.3 GB833.4
CodeLlama 70B70B43.3 GB845.7
Dolphin Llama 3 70B70B43.3 GB845.7
Tulu 3 70B70B43.3 GB859.4
WizardLM 70B70B43.3 GB828.5
OPT 66B66B40.8 GB8
LLaMA 1 65B65.2B40.3 GB842.6