M4 Max 36GB
Apple Silicon
36GB VRAM · 273 GB/s bandwidth · 36.9 FP16 TFLOPS · 75W TDP · $2,499 street price
The M4 Max 36GB has 36GB of VRAM with 273 GB/s memory bandwidth and 36.9 TFLOPS FP16 compute. At Q4 quantization, it can comfortably run Gemma 3 4B (60 tok/s), Qwen 2.5 7B (31 tok/s). Models larger than ~61B parameters won't fit even at Q4. Electricity cost is approximately $8/month at 75W TDP.
What LLMs can you run?
| Model | Params | Q4 Weight | Fit | Decode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 3 4B | 4.0B | 2 GB | comfortable | 60 tok/s |
| Qwen 2.5 7B | 7.6B | 4 GB | comfortable | 31 tok/s |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 8.0B | 4 GB | tight | 29 tok/s |
| Mistral Small 24B | 24.0B | 12 GB | tight | 10 tok/s |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27.4B | 14 GB | tight | 8 tok/s |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B | 32.5B | 16 GB | tight | 7 tok/s |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 70.6B | 35 GB | won't fit | |
| Qwen 2.5 72B | 72.7B | 36 GB | won't fit | |
| Llama 3.1 405B | 405B | 202 GB | won't fit | |
| DeepSeek R1 671B | 671B | 336 GB | won't fit |
Similar GPUs
| GPU | VRAM | BW | TFLOPS | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M3 Max 36GB | 36GB | 200 GB/s | 32.8 | 75W |
| M3 Pro 36GB | 36GB | 150 GB/s | 14.8 | 30W |
| M1 Max 32GB | 32GB | 200 GB/s | 21.2 | 60W |
| M1 Pro 32GB | 32GB | 200 GB/s | 10.6 | 30W |
| M2 Max 32GB | 32GB | 200 GB/s | 27.2 | 60W |
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