Apple M4 (10-core GPU, MacBook Air 13-inch, 16GB)
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Reference: Apple M4 on Wikipedia
- Class
- Mac
- Memory
- 16 GB LPDDR5X
- Runs (Q4_K_M)
- —
- Bandwidth
- 120 GB/s
- Released
- 2025-03-12
Sourcing and disambiguation notes
120GB/s, the same as the M4 Mac mini -- the Air is fanless, so a long generation will thermally throttle where the mini will not, which is a difference this catalogue records nowhere and no published benchmark here isolates. Below the 200GB/s floor of the fitted Mac efficiency, so no throughput estimate is published. Apple no longer sells this configuration new and its refurbished listings do not state memory size, so no price could be tied to a 16GB unit.
Specification sources
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122209 — vendor, 2026-08-23
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-the-m4-chip-and-a-sky-blue-color/ — vendor, 2025-03-12
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.
No records yet for this hardware. Know of a published benchmark on it? Submit the link.
What verified, single-source and estimated mean, and the same rows with every filter and sort in the benchmarks explorer.
Speed over time
What it can run
Fit is arithmetic, not a measurement — how it is computed. Against 16 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.
No modeled quant fits in 16 GB.