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Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU)

for example MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch

Runs 123 models fully in memory, 10 more with CPU offload. 7 of those sit close enough to 64 GB that our size estimate is what decides them.

Memory

64 GB

Bandwidth

460 GB/s

Runs

123

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Specifications

Memory

64 GB

Bandwidth

460 GB/s

FP16 compute

37 TFLOPS

TDP

60 W

MSRP

—

Street price

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Released

Mar 11, 2026

Architecture

M5

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What it runs

Best quant per model — sorted by fit score.

ModelParamsBest quantContextSpeedVerdict

Qwen3.6 35B A3B36BQ4_K_M262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B31.6BQ4_K_M262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Ministral 3 3B 25123.8BQ4_K_M131K140 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 Micro3.2BQ5_K_M66K120 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking31.1BQ5_K_M131K128 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2BQ5_K_M131K142 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3.5-35B-A3B36BQ4_K_M262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct31.1BQ4_K_M262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 250730.5BQ5_K_M66K128 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct30.5BQ4_K_M262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 250730.5BQ5_K_M131K128 tok/sestFits in memory Gemma 3 4B4.3BQ4_K_M131K124 tok/sestFits in memory Niagara 19m Batch.en20MQ8_0~262K15153 tok/sestFits in memory Niagara 38m Batch.en38MQ8_0~262K7975 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 0.6B1.3BQ8_0~262K233 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 3B4.1BQ4_K_M~262K130 tok/sestFits in memory Audio8 ASR 0.1B0.3BQ5_K_M~262K1509 tok/sestFits in memory Higgs Audio v3 STT2.7BQ4_K_M~262K197 tok/sestFits in memory Cohere Transcribe 03 20262.1BQ4_K_M~262K253 tok/sestFits in memory Distil Large v3.50.8BQ5_K_M~262K566 tok/sestFits in memory Lite Whisper Large v3 Acc1.4BQ8_0~262K217 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.1 1B1.1BQ5_K_M~262K412 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1B1BQ4_K_M~262K531 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v4 1B1BQ4_K_M~262K531 tok/sestFits in memory Hubert Large Ls960 ft0.3BQ4_K_M~262K1660 tok/sestFits in memory MMS 1b All1BQ4_K_M~262K531 tok/sestFits in memory Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 Self0.3BQ5_K_M~262K1415 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 1b Speech2.3BQ8_0~262K132 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 3.3 2b3BQ5_K_M~262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b2.3BQ8_0~262K132 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b NAR2.3BQ8_0~262K132 tok/sestFits in memory STT 2.6b en2.6BQ5_K_M~262K174 tok/sestFits in memory Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 26024.4BQ4_K_M~262K121 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 180m Flash0.2BQ4_K_M~262K2951 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b1BQ5_K_M~262K453 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b Flash1BQ5_K_M~262K453 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b v21BQ4_K_M~262K531 tok/sestFits in memory Canary Qwen 2.5b2.6BQ4_K_M~262K204 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K474 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K885 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 0.6b0.6BQ5_K_M~262K755 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 1.1b1.1BQ5_K_M~262K412 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K505 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 1.1b1.1BQ8_0~262K276 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT CTC 110m0.1BQ8_0~262K2755 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v20.6BQ5_K_M~262K755 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v30.6BQ5_K_M~262K755 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 1.1b1.1BQ5_K_M~262K412 tok/sestFits in memory Nyra Health CrisperWhisper1.6BQ5_K_M~262K283 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v31.5BQ5_K_M~262K302 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v3 Turbo0.8BQ5_K_M~262K566 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Diarize0.9BQ8_0~262K337 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Preview 2B2.4BQ5_K_M~66K189 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B0.8BQ5_K_M~262K580 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HF0.8BQ5_K_M~262K566 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B2BQ4_K_M~262K260 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HF2BQ5_K_M~262K222 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ8_0~262K1045 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ5_K_M~262K1561 tok/sestFits in memory ASR Conformer Largescaleasr0.5BQ4_K_M~262K1107 tok/sestFits in memory

A speed marked est is calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of the weights it has to read per word. It is not a measurement.

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