Mac M4 Max (128GB) has 128 GB of VRAM and 546 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It runs 35 models from the catalog on a single card — up to Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) — and serves Llama 3.3 70B at 60.20 tok/s aggregate. All figures are computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.
| Vendor | Apple |
| Category | mac |
| VRAM | 128 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 546 GB/s |
| FP16/BF16 dense compute | 17 TFLOPS |
| NVLink bandwidth | none |
| Release year | 2024 |
| Typical cloud price | $0/hr |
| Note | Unified memory |
| Model | Params | Quant | VRAM needed | Aggregate tok/s | Cost / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTE Large (1024-dim) | 0.44B | fp16 | 7.32 GB | 4840 | — |
| Multilingual E5 Large (1024-dim) | 0.56B | fp16 | 7.56 GB | 3803 | — |
| BGE-M3 (embed, 1024-dim) | 0.57B | fp16 | 7.58 GB | 3749 | — |
| SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct | 1.70B | fp16 | 16.28 GB | 1253 | — |
| Phi-3 Mini 3.8B | 3.80B | fp16 | 33.37 GB | 560.4 | — |
| Qwen 3 4B | 4B | fp16 | 17.66 GB | 532.4 | — |
| Llama 2 7B | 6.74B | fp16 | 47.84 GB | 315.9 | — |
| Qwen 2.5-VL 7B (VLM) | 7B | fp16 | 17.76 GB | 304.2 | — |
| Mistral 7B v0.3 | 7.24B | fp16 | 23.07 GB | 294.1 | — |
| Qwen2 7B | 7.62B | fp16 | 19.00 GB | 279.4 | — |
| Qwen 3 8B | 8B | fp16 | 25.66 GB | 266.2 | — |
| Llama 3 8B | 8.03B | fp16 | 24.65 GB | 265.2 | — |
| Gemma 2 9B | 9B | fp16 | 40.55 GB | 236.6 | — |
| Falcon 3 10B Instruct | 10B | fp16 | 30.74 GB | 212.9 | — |
| Pixtral 12B (VLM) | 12B | fp16 | 34.74 GB | 177.5 | — |
| OLMo 2 13B | 13B | fp16 | 36.74 GB | 163.8 | — |
| Phi-4 14B | 14B | fp16 | 38.74 GB | 152.1 | — |
| Qwen 2.5 14B | 14B | fp16 | 40.88 GB | 152.1 | — |
| Qwen 3 14B | 14B | fp16 | 38.74 GB | 152.1 | — |
| GPT-NeoX 20B | 20B | fp8 | 90.87 GB | 212.5 | — |
| GPT-OSS 20B (MoE) | 20.91B | fp8 | 22.55 GB | 1181 | — |
| Codestral 25.08 | 22B | fp8 | 37.03 GB | 193.2 | — |
| Gemma 2 27B | 27B | fp8 | 51.70 GB | 157.4 | — |
| Qwen3.8 27B (VLM) | 27.78B | fp8 | 33.28 GB | 153.0 | — |
| Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE) | 30B | fp8 | 36.44 GB | 1417 | — |
| Qwen 3 32B | 32B | fp8 | 49.18 GB | 132.8 | — |
| Mixtral 8x7B (MoE) | 46.70B | fp8 | 55.29 GB | 329.5 | — |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 70.60B | fp8 | 92.07 GB | 60.20 | — |
| Llama 3 70B | 70.60B | fp8 | 92.07 GB | 60.20 | — |
| Qwen 2.5-VL 72B (VLM) | 72B | fp8 | 93.47 GB | 59.03 | — |
| Qwen 2.5 72B | 72.70B | fp8 | 94.17 GB | 58.46 | — |
| Qwen2 72B | 72.70B | fp8 | 94.17 GB | 58.46 | — |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E (MoE, VLM) | 109B | awq4 | 72.83 GB | 250.0 | — |
| GPT-OSS 120B (MoE) | 116.83B | awq4 | 66.71 GB | 833.3 | — |
| Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) | 141B | awq4 | 92.58 GB | 109.0 | — |
| GPU | Aggregate tok/s | Cost / 1M tok | $/hr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) | 45076 | — | — |
| RTX 4080 16GB | 6464 | $0.1031 | $0.3 |
| RTX A4000 16GB | 4039 | $0.1651 | $0.3 |
| RTX 5090 32GB | 4039 | $0.1376 | $0.5 |
| A100 40GB SXM4 | 3493 | $0.2863 | $0.9 |
| RTX 4090 24GB | 2272 | $0.1956 | $0.4 |
| V100 SXM2 32GB | 2028 | $0.2739 | $0.5 |
| RTX 3090 24GB | 2017 | $0.1377 | $0.25 |
| H100 SXM5 80GB | 1888 | $0.7358 | $2.5 |
| TPU v6e Trillium (32GB) | 1846 | $0.4816 | $0.8 |
| T4 16GB | 1836 | $0.2421 | $0.2 |
| A10G 24GB | 1352 | $0.2958 | $0.36 |
Mac M4 Max (128GB) is a mac accelerator from Apple with 128 GB of VRAM and 546 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Unified memory. It is aimed at specialised inference workloads.
35 models in the tokcalc catalog fit on one Mac M4 Max (128GB), up to Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) (141B params) at awq4. Below that, throughput and cost per million tokens improve as the model gets smaller.
At fp8 with 8 concurrent users, 1× Mac M4 Max (128GB) serves 60.20 tokens/sec aggregate (7.540 tok/s per stream), with a 136.25 s time to first token. That works out to — per 1M output tokens.
Around $0/hr for on-demand cloud rental (a typical 2025–2026 estimate across RunPod, Lambda, Modal, AWS, GCP and similar providers). Actual pricing varies by region, commitment, and spot availability — the Build vs Buy tab in the calculator pulls live quotes from several providers.
Memory bandwidth drives decode speed and VRAM drives capacity. Mac M4 Max (128GB) has 546 GB/s of bandwidth and 128 GB of VRAM, plus 17 TFLOPS of dense FP16/BF16 compute. The comparison table on this page ranks every accelerator in the catalog on the same reference workload so you can see where it lands.
Pick your model, context length, and concurrency — the calculator computes the rest with the same formulas.