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M1 Pro 32GB

Released 2021-10-26 · Street $1,700
vram
32 GB
unified mem
bandwidth
200
GB/s
models fit
16
top · Q8_0
power
30 W
low

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
M1 Pro 32GB
Apple · Apple Silicon · M1
vram
32 GB unified
bandwidth
200 GB/s
tdp
30 W
released
2021-10-26
msrp
$2,399
street
~$1,700
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
Q8_0 · GGUF · 28.9 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram28.9 / 32 GB
speed7 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q8_0wastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
Full model inspect →

Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bQ8_028.9 GB750.6Ok
02Qwen2.5 Coder 32BQ6_K25.7 GB848.8Great
03Gemma 2 9BFP1619.4 GB1035.0Great
04Gemma 2 27BQ8_028.9 GB746.2Ok
05Qwen3 32BQ6_K25.7 GB840.0Great
06deepseek r1 distill llama 70bQ2_K28.1 GB751.7Ok
07Gemma 3 12BFP1625.7 GB831.3Great
08deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bQ6_K25.7 GB833.3Great
09Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB2215.1Great
10Mixtral 8x7B v0.1Q4_K_M25 GB813.3Great
Showing 10 of 16 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+A6000 Pro
48 GB · ~$4,200 · +$2,500 over M1 Pro 32GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See A6000 Pro
Bigger tier
+RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB · ~$7,000 · +$5,300 over M1 Pro 32GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See RTX 6000 Ada
Premium tier
+H100 PCIe
80 GB · ~$28,000 · +$26,300 over M1 Pro 32GB
Unlocks +2 models not in current rank
See H100 PCIe

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