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Apple M5 Pro

Apple M5 Pro has 48 GB of unified memory at 307 GB/s — about 33.48 GiB usable after driver and compositor overhead. 2030 of 2118 indexed models fit at 16K context with q8_0 KV. Note only 36 GB of its 48 GB is allocatable to the GPU.

Spec sheet· bandwidth, theoreticalFrom the file· fit from summed bytesPredicted· speed
Memory
48 GB
LPDDR5X-9600
Bandwidth
307 GB/s
256-bit bus
Tensor FP16
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dense
TDP
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Context4K8K16K32K64K128K
KV cachef16q8_0q4_0quantizing the KV cache is a ~2× lever on the dominant term at long context
text 1743vision language 183video 16audio tts 21image 2embedding 26audio asr 39

What fits at 16K context

largest quantization that fits, per model · 2030 of 2118 indexed
ModelBest quantParamsWeights●KV●Total in memory◐Headroom◐tok/s◐
Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1_5IQ2_XS49.9B14.04 GiB21.25 GiB35.98 GiB0.02 GiB7±8.3%
Valkyrie-49B-v2.1I1-IQ2_XS49.9B14.04 GiB21.25 GiB35.98 GiB0.02 GiB7±8.3%
Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1IQ2_XS49.9B14.04 GiB21.25 GiB35.98 GiB0.02 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen3-53B-A3B-2507-THINKING-TOTAL-RECALL-v2-MASTER-CODERMoEI1-Q5_K_S53.0B34.03 GiB1.39 GiB35.96 GiB0.04 GiB22±37%
GLM-4.5-Air-REAP-82B-A12BMoEQ2_K_L81.9B33.84 GiB1.53 GiB35.95 GiB0.05 GiB21±37%
Qwen3.6-27B-uncensored-heretic-v2-Native-MTP-PreservedQ8_027.4B34.80 GiB0.53 GiB35.94 GiB0.06 GiB7±8.3%
Salience-1.5-ProMoEQ8_036.0B35.22 GiB0.17 GiB35.94 GiB0.06 GiB36±37%
Qwable-v1MoEQ8_036.0B35.22 GiB0.17 GiB35.94 GiB0.06 GiB36±37%
T-SearchMoEQ8_036.0B35.22 GiB0.17 GiB35.94 GiB0.06 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoEQ8_036.0B35.22 GiB0.17 GiB35.94 GiB0.06 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-Native-MTP-PreservedMoEQ8_035.1B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Fable-5-DistillMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwable-v2MoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-YOYO-V2MoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Ornith-1.0-35B-FP8-BLOCK-MTPMoEQ8_035.5B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
fable-coder-35B-A3BMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
PINQWEN-3.6-35B-CLEAN-BF16MoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
UniMath-35B-A3BMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Ornith-1.0-35B-Heretic-MTPMoEQ8_0—35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Fawen-1.0-35BMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwopus3.6-35B-A3B-v1MoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
CyberStrike-OffSec-35BMoEQ8_035.1B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.7-Opus-Reasoning-DistilledMoEQ8_036.0B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-v2-Native-MTP-PreservedMoEQ8_035.1B35.21 GiB0.17 GiB35.93 GiB0.07 GiB36±37%
llama-3.2-3b-instructF163.2B34.37 GiB0.93 GiB35.86 GiB0.14 GiB7±8.3%
Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603MoEUD-IQ2_M119B34.99 GiB0.19 GiB35.76 GiB0.24 GiB36±37%
Laguna-S-2.1MoEUD-IQ2_M118B34.71 GiB0.47 GiB35.76 GiB0.24 GiB32±37%
deepseek-coder-33b-instructQ8_033.3B33.00 GiB2.06 GiB35.69 GiB0.31 GiB7±8.3%
deepseek-coder-33b-baseQ8_033.3B33.00 GiB2.06 GiB35.69 GiB0.31 GiB7±8.3%
WhiteRabbitNeo-33B-v1Q8_033.3B33.00 GiB2.06 GiB35.68 GiB0.32 GiB7±8.3%
Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512UD-IQ2_XXS125B32.04 GiB2.92 GiB35.67 GiB0.33 GiB7±8.3%
gemma-4-31B-it-Mystery-Fine-Tune-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-ThinkingQ4_K_S31.3B33.09 GiB1.95 GiB35.67 GiB0.33 GiB7±8.3%
WizardCoder-Python-34B-V1.0Q8_033.7B33.39 GiB1.59 GiB35.63 GiB0.37 GiB7±8.3%
Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v2Q8_033.7B33.39 GiB1.59 GiB35.63 GiB0.37 GiB7±8.3%
CodeLlama-34b-instruct-hfQ8_033.7B33.39 GiB1.59 GiB35.63 GiB0.37 GiB7±8.3%
WizardLM-1.0-Uncensored-CodeLlama-34bQ8_033.7B33.39 GiB1.59 GiB35.63 GiB0.37 GiB7±8.3%
Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1Q8_033.7B33.39 GiB1.59 GiB35.63 GiB0.37 GiB7±8.3%
GLM-4.6VMoEIQ1_M108B33.46 GiB1.53 GiB35.56 GiB0.44 GiB24±37%
Melody1437-27BQ4_K_M27.8B34.41 GiB0.53 GiB35.56 GiB0.44 GiB7±8.3%
llm-surgery-dark-arts-gpt-oss-60b-96a12MoEI1-Q4_160.9B34.76 GiB0.21 GiB35.51 GiB0.49 GiB21±37%
HarmonicHarlequin_v5-20BI1-Q4_K_S33.3B17.62 GiB17.27 GiB35.47 GiB0.53 GiB7±8.3%
GLM-Z1-Rumination-32B-0414Q8_033.1B32.81 GiB2.03 GiB35.47 GiB0.53 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen3-Coder-NextMoEIQ3_M79.7B34.13 GiB0.80 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB34±37%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingMoEIQ3_M81.3B34.13 GiB0.80 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB34±37%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructMoEIQ3_M81.3B34.13 GiB0.80 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB34±37%
Rombo-LLM-V3.0-Qwen-72bI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-abliteratedI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-abliterated-v2I1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
HuatuoGPT-o1-72BQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
MiroThinker-v1.0-72BI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
EVA-Qwen2.5-72B-v0.2Q3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen2.5-Math-72B-InstructQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen2.5-72B-InstructQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Malaysian-Qwen2.5-72B-InstructI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Qwen2.5-72BI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
magnum-v4-72bI1-IQ3_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Kimi-Dev-72BQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
KAT-Dev-72B-ExpQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
Homer-v1.0-Qwen2.5-72BQ3_K_S72.7B32.12 GiB2.66 GiB35.46 GiB0.54 GiB7±8.3%
●From the file◐Predictedwhat these mean

Speed is modeled, not measured: decode is memory-bandwidth bound, so tokens per second is bytes read per token against achievable bandwidth. Mixture-of-experts models carry a wider band because only the routed experts are read each step, and few have been measured publicly.

Questions people ask

What AI models can a Apple M5 Pro run?
2030 of 2118 indexed open-weight models fit a Apple M5 Pro at 16,384 context with q8_0 KV cache, the largest being Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1_5 at IQ2_XS. That covers text, vision-language, image, video and speech models.
How much usable memory does a Apple M5 Pro actually have?
Its nameplate is 48 GB, but about 33.48 GiB is available to a model once driver and compositor overhead is accounted for, and only 36 GB of the pool can be allocated to the GPU at all.
Is a Apple M5 Pro fast for local AI?
Its memory bandwidth is 307 GB/s, and that figure — not teraflops — is what governs token generation speed. Capacity decides what you can run; bandwidth decides how fast it runs.