Hardware profile

Mac Studio M4 Max · 64 GB

64 GB system memory · 64 GB unified memory

Platform macOS
Available for models 64 GB
Backends Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX

High memory bandwidth helps with larger models; still reserve memory for the OS and applications.

Model fit

Model Minimum Result
gpt-oss-20b 14 GB Fits
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B 25 GB Fits
Qwen3.8 27B 20 GB Fits
Gemma 4 12B Unified 10 GB Fits
Gemma 4 E4B 8 GB Fits
Gemma 4 31B 23 GB Fits
gpt-oss-120b 66 GB Not recommended
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 234 GB Not recommended
Llama 3.2 3B 4 GB Fits
Qwen3 8B 8 GB Fits
Gemma 3 4B 6 GB Fits
Phi-4 Mini 5 GB Fits
Mistral 7B 8 GB Fits
DeepSeek R1 8B 8 GB Fits

Source

https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/

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