HARDWARE / UNIFIED MEMORY

Mac Studio M3 Ultra · 256 GB

Enough capacity for many 100B-plus low-bit models, provided the architecture is supported and optimized by the selected runtime.

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Large-memory Apple desktop256 GB

01 / PRACTICAL CEILING

DeepSeek V4 Flash

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

Показательные модели с открытыми весами

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash

284B13B active · Official FP4 + FP8 mixed

Оценка памяти: ~176 GB
Контекст: 1M native

Community REAP build

Qwen3.8 Flash Next REAP-288

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

Оценка памяти: ~40.57 GB
Контекст: 7.6K recommended on measured 48 GB Mac

OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b

117B5.1B active · MXFP4

Оценка памяти: ~80 GB
Контекст: 128K

Llama 4 Scout

109B17B active · INT4 MoE

Оценка памяти: ~78 GB
Контекст: 10M advertised

Llama 3.1 70B

70BGGUF Q4

Оценка памяти: ~46 GB
Контекст: 128K

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

35B3B active · Q4 / NVFP4 MoE

Оценка памяти: ~25 GB
Контекст: 262K native

Внимание

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: DeepSeek V4 Flash (Tight), Qwen3.8 Flash Next REAP-288 (Comfortable), gpt-oss-120b (Comfortable), Llama 4 Scout (Comfortable), Llama 3.1 70B (Comfortable), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (Comfortable).