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M4 Max 48GB

Released 2024-10-30 · Street $3,499
vram
48 GB
unified mem
bandwidth
546
GB/s
models fit
17
top · Q8_0
power
78 W
low

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
M4 Max 48GB
Apple · Apple Silicon · M4
vram
48 GB unified
bandwidth
546 GB/s
tdp
78 W
released
2024-10-30
msrp
$3,499
street
~$3,499
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
Q8_0 · GGUF · 28.9 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram28.9 / 48 GB
speed19 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q8_0wastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
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Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bQ8_028.9 GB1950.6Great
02Qwen2.5 Coder 32BQ8_034.1 GB1648.8Great
03Gemma 2 27BQ8_028.9 GB1946.2Great
04Qwen3 32BQ8_034.1 GB1640.0Great
05Gemma 2 9BFP1619.4 GB2835.0Great
06Gemma 3 12BFP1625.7 GB2131.3Great
07deepseek r1 distill llama 70bQ5_K_M46.4 GB1251.7Tight
08deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bQ8_034.1 GB1633.3Great
09Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB6115.1Great
10Mixtral 8x7B v0.1Q6_K37.3 GB1513.3Great
Showing 10 of 17 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+H100 PCIe
80 GB · ~$28,000 · +$24,501 over M4 Max 48GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See H100 PCIe
Bigger tier
+H100 SXM5
80 GB · ~$40,000 · +$36,501 over M4 Max 48GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See H100 SXM5
Premium tier
+H200 SXM5
141 GB · ~$45,000 · +$41,501 over M4 Max 48GB
Unlocks +2 models not in current rank
See H200 SXM5

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