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M3 Pro 18GB

Released 2023-10-30 · Street $1,800
vram
18 GB
unified mem
bandwidth
150
GB/s
models fit
12
top · Q4_K_M
power
40 W
low

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
M3 Pro 18GB
Apple · Apple Silicon · M3
vram
18 GB unified
bandwidth
150 GB/s
tdp
40 W
released
2023-10-30
msrp
$1,999
street
~$1,800
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
Q4_K_M · GGUF · 14.7 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram14.7 / 18 GB
speed10 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q4_K_Mwastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
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Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bQ4_K_M14.7 GB1050.6Great
02Gemma 2 27BQ4_K_M14.7 GB1046.2Great
03Qwen2.5 Coder 32BQ4_K_M17.3 GB948.8Tight
04Gemma 2 9BQ8_010 GB1535.0Great
05Gemma 3 12BQ8_013.1 GB1131.3Great
06Qwen3 32BQ4_K_M17.3 GB940.0Tight
07deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bQ4_K_M17.3 GB933.3Tight
08Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB1715.1Great
09Gemma 2 2bFP164.7 GB320.0Great
10Yi 1.5 34BQ2_K13.9 GB110.0Great
Showing 10 of 12 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+RTX 5090
32 GB · ~$2,399 · +$599 over M3 Pro 18GB
Unlocks +4 models not in current rank
See RTX 5090
Bigger tier
+RTX 4090
24 GB · ~$1,899 · +$99 over M3 Pro 18GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See RTX 4090
Premium tier
+RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB · ~$950 · +$-850 over M3 Pro 18GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See RTX 3090 Ti

Also compare

RTX 5090
32 GB · NVIDIA · 33% more
RTX 5080
16 GB · NVIDIA · 39% cheaper
RTX 5070 Ti
16 GB · NVIDIA · 53% cheaper
RTX 5070
12 GB · NVIDIA · 67% cheaper
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