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MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro (32GB) for local AI

MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro (32GB) provides 32 GB of VRAM for local AI. In the LocalIA catalog, 207 out of 242 models run comfortably on a single card.

VRAM
32GB
Category
Apple
Series
MacBook Pro 14
Vendor
Apple

Models that run comfortably

These models fit in 32 GB with room for context and stable inference.

Falcon 40Bfalcon25.1 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 32 GB
Command R 35Bcommand26.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Aya 23 35Baya26.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
CodeLlama 34Bcodellama26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Yi 1.5 34Byi26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34byi26.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 2.5 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 3 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
QwQ 32Bqwq24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
DeepSeek R1 Distill 32Bdeepseek24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Granite 4 H-Small 32B-A9Bgranite24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
GLM-4.6glm24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
GLM-4.7glm24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
GLM-5glm24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
GLM-5.1glm24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen3 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instructqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen2.5 32B Instructqwen24.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Gemma 4 31Bgemma23.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen 3 30B A3Bqwen23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
MPT 30Bmpt23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instructqwen23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen3 30B A3Bqwen23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507qwen23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16nemotron23.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Gemma 2 27Bgemma20.7 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB
Gemma 3 27Bgemma20.7 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 32 GB

Tight models

These models barely fit. They can run, but context and speed will be limited.

Mixtral 8x7Bmistral29.5 GBtightQ4 · / 32 GB

Unlocked in a 2x rig

With two cards in parallel (64 GB total), larger models become reachable.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instructqwen50.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Qwen 2.5 72Bqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 72Bqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen45.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 64 GB
Llama 2 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.1 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.3 70Bllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
CodeLlama 70Bcodellama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
DeepSeek R1 Distill 70Bdeepseek53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Hermes 3 70Bhermes53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70Bnemotron53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Athene 70Bathene53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.3 70B Instructllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB
Llama 3.1 70B Instructllama53.8 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 64 GB

Unlocked in a 4x rig

Server-style configuration (128 GB total) for the largest open-weight models.

Falcon 180Bfalcon113.2 GBtightQ4 · / 128 GB
Mixtral 8x22Bmistral108.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 128 GB
Mistral Large 123Bmistral94.5 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 128 GB
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16nemotron92.2 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 128 GB
Llama 4 Scout 17Bx16llama83.7 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 128 GB
Command R+ 104Bcommand79.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 128 GB

Similar GPUs

VRAM estimates updated 2026-05-12. Apple Silicon: part of unified memory remains reserved for the system.