Apple M1 Max (32-core GPU, 64GB)
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Reference: Apple M1 on Wikipedia
- Class
- Mac
- Memory
- 64 GB LPDDR5
- Runs (Q4_K_M)
- —
- Bandwidth
- 400 GB/s
- Released
- 2021-10-26
- Price (US)
- $1199 used as of 2026-08
Sourcing and disambiguation notes
Price is for a complete MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021), M1 Max 32-core GPU, 64GB/1TB, Mint condition -- a sold listing on Swappa (a curated used-Apple marketplace). Apple never sold this chip new, so no 'new' figure exists.
Specification sources
- https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 — community-table, 2023-11-25
Measurements
Decode is token generation — the speed you feel while an answer streams. Prefill is prompt processing — the wait before it starts. Why bandwidth predicts decode speed.
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Speed over time
What it can run
Fit is arithmetic, not a measurement — how it is computed. Against 64 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.
No modeled quant fits in 64 GB.