MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB: 128GB VRAM — What Local LLMs Can It Run?
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The MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB has 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with 614 GB/s of bandwidth. No used-price data yet. At Q4 quantization it runs models up to 70B parameters at roughly 8 tokens/s.
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What LLMs can the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB run?
One reference model per family (its main version)| Model | Q4_K_M | Q8_0 | FP16 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fits | Speed t/s | Context | Fits | Speed t/s | Context | Fits | Speed t/s | Context | |
| DeepSeekDeepSeek R1 Qwen3 8B | ✓ | 61.4 | 128K | ✓ | 35.5 | 128K | ✓ | 19.6 | 128K |
| GemmaGemma 4 31B | ✓ | 15.5 | 32K | ✓ | 9.1 | 32K | ✓ | 5.1 | 32K |
| GLMGLM 4.7 Flash | ✓ | 103.4 | 128K | ✓ | 71.3 | 128K | ✓ | 44.7 | 128K |
| gpt-ossgpt-oss 20B | ✓ | 94.1 | 128K | ✓ | 63.1 | 128K | ✓ | 38.6 | 128K |
| KimiKimi Linear 48B A3B | ✓ | 109.2 | 128K | ✓ | 74 | 128K | ✓ | 45.7 | 128K |
| LlamaLlama 3.1 8B | ✓ | 63.2 | 128K | ✓ | 36.4 | 128K | ✓ | 20.1 | 128K |
| MistralMistral 7B v0.3 | ✓ | 68.9 | 32K | ✓ | 39.9 | 32K | ✓ | 22.1 | 32K |
| QwenQwen3 8B | ✓ | 61.4 | 32K | ✓ | 35.5 | 32K | ✓ | 19.6 | 32K |
Fits when weights + KV cache + runtime overhead is at or below usable memory, single card. "Offload" on MoE models means it runs with expert weights in system RAM (only attention layers and KV cache stay in VRAM); that speed assumes 70 GB/s RAM bandwidth. The context column is the largest tier that fits.
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FAQ
How much VRAM does the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB have?
The MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB has 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with 614 GB/s of bandwidth.
Can the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB run a 70B model?
Yes. At Q4_K_M with an 8K context a 70B dense model needs about 43GB, which fits in the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB's 128GB.
How much does a used MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB cost?
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