M3 Max 48GB

66 models / sorted by best_quality

Quality Fastest Least mem Newest
Runs comfortably
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q8_0
37.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 76 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 38/48GB
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q6_K
29.2GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 99 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 29/48GB
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q5_K_M
25.3GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 114 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 25/48GB
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q4_K_M
21.7GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 133 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 22/48GB
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Q4_K_M
20.0GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 140 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 20/48GB
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Q8_0
37.0GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 76 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 37/48GB
Pokee-Isaac 28B Q4_K_M
16.0GB 10000k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 15 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/48GB
Pokee-Isaac 28B Q8_0
28.0GB 10000k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 28/48GB
Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q4_K_XL Unsloth
17.6GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 14 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 18/48GB
Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q2_K_XL Unsloth
9.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 24 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/48GB
Qwen3.8-27B UD-IQ1_S Unsloth
6.2GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 39 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/48GB
Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 Unsloth
15.2GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 16 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/48GB
Gemma 4 31B QAT
18.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 18/48GB
Gemma 4 31B Q4_K_M
18.3GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 18/48GB
Gemma 4 31B Q8_0
32.6GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 7 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 33/48GB
Gemma 4 31B NVFP4
16.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 15 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/48GB
Gemma 4 26B A4B NVFP4
14.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 114 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/48GB
Gemma 4 26B A4B Q4_K_M
13.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 122 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/48GB
Gemma 4 26B A4B Q8_0
25.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 64 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 25/48GB
Qwen3.6 27B Q8_0
28.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 28/48GB
Qwen3.6 27B Q4_K_M
16.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 15 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 17/48GB
Qwen3 32B Q6_K
28.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 29/48GB
Qwen3 32B Q5_K_M
24.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 25/48GB
Qwen3 32B Q8_0
34.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 7 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 34/48GB
Qwen3 32B Q4_K_M
20.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 12 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 20/48GB
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Q4_K_M
32.0GB 1000k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 66 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 32/48GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q5_K_M
6.6GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 36 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/48GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q6_K
7.6GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 32 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/48GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q8_0
9.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 25 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/48GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q4_K_M
5.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 42 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/48GB
Ornith-1.5-9B BF16
18.4GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 18/48GB
Qwen3 30B A3B Q4_K_M
15.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 157 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/48GB
Qwen3 30B A3B Q8_0
31.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 79 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 31/48GB
Phi-4 14B Q4_K_M
8.5GB 16k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 28 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/48GB
Phi-4 14B FP16
29.0GB 16k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 29/48GB
Phi-4 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 16k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 16 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/48GB
Xing4.0-29B-A4B Q4_K_M
20.1GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 86 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 20/48GB
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Q4_K_M
42.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 42/48GB
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Q3_K_M
30.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 30/48GB
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Q2_K
21.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 11 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 22/48GB
Qwen3 14B Q4_K_M
9.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 27 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/48GB
Qwen3 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 16 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/48GB
Gemma 4 12B Q4_K_M
7.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 33 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/48GB
Gemma 4 12B Q8_0
13.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 18 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/48GB
Gemma 3 27B Q8_0
28.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 28/48GB
Gemma 3 27B Q4_K_M
17.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 14 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 17/48GB
Qwen3 8B Q8_0
8.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 28 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/48GB
Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M
5.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 46 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/48GB
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct Q4_K_M
26.5GB 32k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 33 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 27/48GB
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct Q3_K_M
19.0GB 32k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 46 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 19/48GB
Gemma 3 12B Q8_0
13.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 18 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/48GB
Gemma 3 12B Q4_K_M
7.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 32 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/48GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q8_0
13.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 18 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/48GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q4_K_M
7.3GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 33 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/48GB
Qwen3 4B Q4_K_M
2.6GB 32k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 92 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/48GB
Phi-4 Mini Q4_K_M
2.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 96 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/48GB
Phi-4 Mini Q8_0
4.1GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 59 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/48GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct FP16
16.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 15 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/48GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q8_0
8.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 30 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/48GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M
4.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 53 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/48GB
Gemma 3 4B Q4_K_M
3.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 80 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/48GB
Gemma 3 4B Q8_0
5.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 48 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/48GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q8_0
3.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 69 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/48GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q4_K_M
2.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 120 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 2/48GB
Muse Glimmer 30B Q8_0
33.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 7 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 33/48GB
Muse Glimmer 30B Q4_K_M
18.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 18/48GB

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