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MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max (64GB) for local AI

MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max (64GB) provides 64 GB of VRAM for local AI. In the LocalIA catalog, 223 out of 242 models run comfortably on a single card.

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VRAM
64GB
Category
Apple
Series
MacBook Pro 16
Vendor
Apple

Models that run comfortably

These models fit in 64 GB with room for context and stable inference.

★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
★Mixtral 8x7Bmistral52.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
Falcon 40Bfalcon44.7 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
Command R 35Bcommand39.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
Aya 23 35Baya39.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
CodeLlama 34Bcodellama38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
Yi 1.5 34Byi38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34byi38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★Qwen 2.5 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★Qwen 2.5 Coder 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★Qwen 3 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★QwQ 32Bqwq35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 32Bdeepseek35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
★Granite 4 H-Small 32B-A9Bgranite35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB
GLM-4.6glm35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 64 GB

Unlocked in a 2x rig

With two cards in parallel (128 GB total), larger models become reachable.

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

Unlocked in a 4x rig

Server-style configuration (256 GB total) for the largest open-weight models.

★Llama 3.1 405Bllama254.6 GBtightQ4 · / 256 GB
Hermes 3 405Bhermes254.6 GBtightQ4 · / 256 GB
★Llama 4 Maverick 17Bx128llama251.5 GBtightQ4 · / 256 GB
Nemotron 340Bnemotron213.7 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 256 GB
DeepSeek V2deepseek181.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 256 GB
DeepSeek Coder V2deepseek181.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 256 GB
★Qwen 3 235B A22Bqwen180.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 256 GB
★Qwen3 235B A22Bqwen180.6 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 256 GB

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