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Apple Silicon

Mac Studio M3 Ultra (128GB)

$3,999

Chip

Apple M3 Ultra

Unified memory

128 GB

Llama 3.1 8B tok/s

68

Max model size

~110 GB

Notes

Largest unified memory pool for local LLMs
Can run 70B Q4 with careful quantization
Premium price vs DIY multi-GPU builds

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MacBook Pro 14" M4 Pro (48GB) — $2,499
Mac Studio M4 Max (64GB) — $1,999

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