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MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max (48GB) for local AI

MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max (48GB) provides 48 GB of VRAM for local AI. In the LocalIA catalog, 208 out of 242 models run comfortably on a single card.

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VRAM
48GB
Category
Apple
Series
MacBook Pro 16
Vendor
Apple

Models that run comfortably

These models fit in 48 GB with room for context and stable inference.

★Mixtral 8x7Bmistral36.1 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 48 GB
Falcon 40Bfalcon30.7 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 48 GB
Command R 35Bcommand39.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
Aya 23 35Baya39.1 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
CodeLlama 34Bcodellama38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
Yi 1.5 34Byi38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34byi38.0 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen 2.5 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen 2.5 Coder 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen 3 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★QwQ 32Bqwq35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 32Bdeepseek35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Granite 4 H-Small 32B-A9Bgranite35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
GLM-4.6glm35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★GLM-4.7glm35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★GLM-5glm35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★GLM-5.1glm35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen3 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instructqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen2.5 32B Instructqwen35.8 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Gemma 4 31Bgemma34.6 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen 3 30B A3Bqwen33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
MPT 30Bmpt33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instructqwen33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen3 30B A3Bqwen33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507qwen33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16nemotron33.5 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB
★Gemma 2 27Bgemma30.2 GBcomfortableQ8 · / 48 GB

Tight models

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

★Qwen 2.5 72Bqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Qwen 2.5 VL 72Bqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen45.3 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 2 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 3 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Llama 3.1 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Llama 3.3 70Bllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
CodeLlama 70Bcodellama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★DeepSeek R1 Distill 70Bdeepseek44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Hermes 3 70Bhermes44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70Bnemotron44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
Athene 70Bathene44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Llama 3.3 70B Instructllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB
★Llama 3.1 70B Instructllama44.0 GBtightQ4 · / 48 GB

Unlocked in a 2x rig

With two cards in parallel (96 GB total), larger models become reachable.

Mixtral 8x22Bmistral88.6 GBtightQ4 · / 96 GB
★Mistral Large 123Bmistral77.3 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 96 GB
★NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16nemotron75.4 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 96 GB
★Llama 4 Scout 17Bx16llama68.5 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 96 GB
★Command R+ 104Bcommand79.9 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 96 GB
★Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instructqwen61.5 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 96 GB

Unlocked in a 4x rig

Server-style configuration (192 GB total) for the largest open-weight models.

DeepSeek V2deepseek148.4 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 192 GB
DeepSeek Coder V2deepseek148.4 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 192 GB
★Qwen 3 235B A22Bqwen147.7 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 192 GB
★Qwen3 235B A22Bqwen147.7 GBcomfortableQ4 · / 192 GB
Falcon 180Bfalcon138.3 GBcomfortableQ5 · / 192 GB

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