Apple M4: Specs & Local-AI Compatibility
Efficient SoC; up to ~32GB unified memory for small/mid local models.
Specs
- Memory
- 32 GB unified
- Memory type
- Unified LPDDR5X
- Bandwidth
- 120 GB/s
- Approx FP16
- to verify
- Architecture
- Apple M4
- Process
- TSMC N3E
- Power
- 22 W
- Launch
- 2024
Models this chip can run
Open models graded for a single Apple M4, best fit first.
- CodeLlama 13BCodeLlama · ~13B · 16K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q8_0 (~14GB) with ~8.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~14GBRuns well - Gemma 3 12BGemma 3 · ~12B · 128K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q8_0 (~13GB) with ~9.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~13GBRuns well - Mistral Nemo 12BMistral · ~12B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~13GB) with ~9.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~13GBRuns well - Gemma 2 9BGemma · ~9B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at FP16 (~19GB) with ~3.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~19GBRuns well - Llama 3.1 8BLlama · ~8B · 128K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~5.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - Qwen3 8BQwen · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~5.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - Granite 3 8BGranite · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~5.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well - DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek · ~8B · 128K ctx · MIT
Fits at FP16 (~17GB) with ~5.4GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
FP16 · ~17GBRuns well
Devices built on this chip
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