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Can a Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB run Llama 3.2 3B?

Yes. Llama 3.2 3B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB at Q8_0 (4.2 GB needed, 96.0 GB usable), about 128 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB · Model: Llama 3.2 3B

Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB has 128 GB of unified memory and 546 GB/s of memory bandwidth. M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB has the same memory and bandwidth, so the fit numbers match; this page is Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 96.0 GB. Llama 3.2 3B (3.21B, Meta) at Q8_0 is a 3.4 GB download and needs 4.2 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size3.4 GB
Memory needed4.2 GB
Usable fast memory96.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~128 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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