HARDWARE / UNIFIED MEMORY

Mac Studio M3 Ultra · 96 GB

A quiet single-box option for 70B-class Q4 models and Apple-native MLX workflows, with memory shared by macOS and applications.

Fonte primaria

Apple desktop96 GB

01 / PRACTICAL CEILING

Qwen3.8 Flash Next REAP-288

The highest listed result may be a tight or offloaded fit. For daily use, prefer the first result marked Comfortable and keep context modest.

02 / DEFAULT RUNTIME

MLX LM

Native Apple silicon inference, experimentation and fine-tuning. Only for Apple silicon. Use an MLX-converted model and tune KV cache size for long contexts.

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03 / MODEL ENVELOPE

Modelli open-weight rappresentativi

Community REAP build

Qwen3.8 Flash Next REAP-288

176BREAP-288 · MLX 4-bit · PLE on NVMe

Memoria stimata: ~40.57 GB
Contesto: 7.6K recommended on measured 48 GB Mac

Llama 3.1 70B

70BGGUF Q4

Memoria stimata: ~46 GB
Contesto: 128K

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

35B3B active · Q4 / NVFP4 MoE

Memoria stimata: ~25 GB
Contesto: 262K native

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3 32B

32BGGUF Q4

Memoria stimata: ~24.5 GB
Contesto: 32K+

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3 30B-A3B

30B3B active · GGUF Q4 MoE

Memoria stimata: ~22.5 GB
Contesto: 32K+

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3.6 27B

27BQ4 / NVFP4 estimate

Memoria stimata: ~18.5 GB
Contesto: 262K native

Attenzione

Fit is based on estimated total model memory. Driver support, KV cache, multimodal projectors, concurrency, and desktop applications can all reduce available headroom. Current fit: Qwen3.8 Flash Next REAP-288 (Comfortable), Llama 3.1 70B (Comfortable), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Comfortable), Qwen3 32B (Comfortable), Qwen3 30B-A3B (Comfortable), Qwen3.6 27B (Comfortable).