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What local LLMs run on M3 Max (40c GPU) 128GB?

With 128 GB unified memory (about 96.0 GB usable by the GPU), these are the best open models that fit. The top pick is gpt-oss 120B (MoE, MXFP4) at MXFP4 (~67.3 GB, ~56 tok/s): ollama run gpt-oss:120b.

Best for coding: gpt-oss 120B (MoE, MXFP4) (gpt-oss:120b), Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class) (nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B (MoE) (qwen3.5:122b).

Runtimes available for this hardware: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX.

Open the interactive checker for M3 Max (40c GPU) 128GB
#ModelQuantMemory neededFitSpeedCommand
1gpt-oss 120B (MoE, MXFP4)MXFP467.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run gpt-oss:120b
2Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class)Default27.7 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b
3Qwen3.5 122B-A10B (MoE)Q4_K_M83.7 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:122b
4Llama 4 Scout 109B (MoE)Q4_K_M69.7 GBfits in fast memory~15 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
5Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE)Q4_K_M92.7 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-super:120b-a12b-q4_K_M
6Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE)Q8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
7Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
8Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
9Laguna XS 2.1 33B-A3B (MoE)Q8_037.4 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run laguna-xs-2.1:q8_0
10GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~52 tok/sollama run glm-4.7-flash:q8_0
11Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
12Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_035.7 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
13Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_036.4 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q8_0
14Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_034.4 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0
15Ornith-1.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Default24.8 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:35b
16Bonsai 2 27B (ternary)Q2_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:27b
17Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE)Q8_029.6 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q8_0
18gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4)MXFP415.1 GBfits in fast memory~66 tok/sollama run gpt-oss:20b
19LFM2.5 24B-A2B (MoE)Q8_026.2 GBfits in fast memory~77 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:24b-a2b-q8_0
20North Mini Code 1.0 30B (MoE)Q8_034.1 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sollama run north-mini-code-1.0:q8_0
21Muse Glimmer 30BQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sollama run muse-glimmer:30b-q8_0
22Granite 4.2 30BQ8_033.1 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sollama run granite4.2:30b-q8_0
23Qwen3.5 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:27b-q8_0
24Qwen3.6 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:27b-q8_0
25Gemma 3 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run gemma3:27b-it-q8_0
26Qwen3 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen3:32b-q8_0
27DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q8_0
28Gemma 4 31BQ8_036.5 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run gemma4:31b-it-q8_0
29Clef 27B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run clef:27b-q8_0
30Qwen3.8 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
31Qwen3-VL 32BQ8_038.6 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:32b-instruct-q8_0
32Mistral Small 24BQ8_026.8 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run mistral-small:24b-instruct-2501-q8_0
33Devstral Small 2 24BQ8_027.8 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run devstral-small-2:24b-instruct-2512-q8_0
34Bonsai 2 9B (ternary)Q2_04.6 GBfits in fast memory~100 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:9b
35Qwen3 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run qwen3:14b-q8_0
36DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q8_0
37Phi-4 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run phi4:14b-q8_0
38Llama 3.3 70BQ8_079.1 GBfits in fast memory~4 tok/sollama run llama3.3:70b-instruct-q8_0
39DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BQ8_079.1 GBfits in fast memory~4 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:70b-llama-distill-q8_0
40Ministral 3 14BQ8_016.6 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run ministral-3:14b-instruct-2512-q8_0
41Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)Q8_051.8 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q8_0
42Mistral Nemo 12BQ8_014.2 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-q8_0
43Gemma 3 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run gemma3:12b-it-q8_0
44Gemma 4 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run gemma4:12b-it-q8_0
45LFM2.5 8B-A1B (MoE)Q8_09.8 GBfits in fast memory~151 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:8b-a1b-q8_0
46Qwen3.5 9BQ8_011.4 GBfits in fast memory~32 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
47Llama 3.2 Vision 11BQ8_013.5 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-q8_0
48Ornith-1.5 9BDefault8 GBfits in fast memory~48 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:9b
49Nimble v3 9B (Bespoke Labs, decision)Q8_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run nimble-v3:9b-q8_0
50Granite 4.2 8BQ8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run granite4.2:8b-q8_0
51Ministral 3 8BQ8_011.3 GBfits in fast memory~32 tok/sollama run ministral-3:8b-instruct-2512-q8_0
52Qwen3-VL 8BQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
53Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run qwen3:8b-q8_0
54DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:8b-0528-qwen3-q8_0
55DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~40 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:7b-qwen-distill-q8_0
56Qwen 2.5 VL 7BQ8_010.8 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run qwen2.5vl:7b-q8_0
57MiniCPM-V 2.6 8BQ8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~35 tok/sollama run minicpm-v:8b-2.6-q8_0
58Gemma 4 E4B (effective 4.5B)Q8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0
59Clef-Flash 9B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_012.4 GBfits in fast memory~29 tok/sollama run clef-flash:9b-q8_0
60Gemma 3n E4B (on-device)Q8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e4b-it-q8_0
61Gemma 4 E2B (effective 2.3B)Q8_07.2 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run gemma4:e2b-it-q8_0
62Qwen3.5 4BQ8_06.4 GBfits in fast memory~62 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:4b-q8_0
63DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B (MoE)Q8_018 GBfits in fast memory~62 tok/sollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b-lite-instruct-q8_0
64Gemma 3n E2B (on-device)Q8_07.8 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e2b-it-q8_0
65Qwen3-VL 4BQ8_06.3 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:4b-instruct-q8_0
66Gemma 3 4BQ8_06.2 GBfits in fast memory~64 tok/sollama run gemma3:4b-it-q8_0
67Qwen3 4BQ8_05.2 GBfits in fast memory~73 tok/sollama run qwen3:4b-q8_0
68tev1 4B (Together AI, decision)Q8_05.4 GBfits in fast memory~70 tok/sollama run tev1:4b-q8_0
69Ministral 3 3BQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~71 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
70Phi-4 Mini 3.8BQ8_04.9 GBfits in fast memory~78 tok/sollama run phi4-mini:3.8b-q8_0
71Granite 4.2 3BQ8_04.7 GBfits in fast memory~82 tok/sollama run granite4.2:3b-q8_0
72Bonsai 2 4B (ternary)Q2_02.8 GBfits in fast memory~200 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:4b
73Llama 3.2 3BQ8_04.2 GBfits in fast memory~94 tok/sollama run llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0
74Qwen 2.5 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:32b-instruct-q8_0
75Qwen 2.5 Coder 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q8_0
76Qwen3.5 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~119 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:2b-q8_0
77Qwen3-VL 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~119 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:2b-instruct-q8_0
78Qwen 2.5 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q8_0
79Qwen 2.5 Coder 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:14b-instruct-q8_0
80Qwen 2.5 72BQ8_081.1 GBfits in fast memory~4 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:72b-instruct-q8_0
81Qwen3 1.7BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~145 tok/sollama run qwen3:1.7b-q8_0
82DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BQ8_02.6 GBfits in fast memory~168 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b-qwen-distill-q8_0
83SmolLM2 1.7BQ8_02.5 GBfits in fast memory~178 tok/sollama run smollm2:1.7b
84Bonsai 2 2B (ternary)Q2_02 GBfits in fast memory~352 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:2b
85Llama 3.1 8BQ8_09.5 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0
86Qwen 2.5 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~40 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q8_0
87Qwen 2.5 Coder 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~40 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b-instruct-q8_0
88Mistral 7B v0.3Q8_08.7 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sollama run mistral:7b-instruct-q8_0
89GLM-OCR 0.9BBF163.7 GBfits in fast memory~119 tok/sollama run glm-ocr:latest
90LLaVA 1.6 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run llava:7b-v1.6-vicuna-q8_0
91Code Llama 7BQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
92MiniCPM-V 4.6 1BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~168 tok/sollama run minicpm-v4.6:q8_0
93Llama 3.2 1BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~246 tok/sollama run llama3.2:1b
94LFM2.5 1.2B ThinkingQ8_01.9 GBfits in fast memory~267 tok/sollama run lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b-q8_0
95Gemma 3 1BQ8_01.8 GBfits in fast memory~291 tok/sollama run gemma3:1b-it-q8_0
96Qwen3.5 0.8BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~320 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:0.8b-q8_0
97Qwen3 0.6BQ8_01.5 GBfits in fast memory~386 tok/sollama run qwen3:0.6b-q8_0
98Qwen 2.5 3BQ8_04.1 GBfits in fast memory~97 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:3b-instruct-q8_0
99SmolLM2 360MFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~438 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
100SmolLM2 135MFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1185 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
101Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5BQ8_02.3 GBfits in fast memory~200 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:1.5b-instruct-q8_0

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 2026-10-18.

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