Apple M2 Max meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M2 Max can run lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit with Q4 quantization. At approximately 49 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 92GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 4GB | 96GB | 48.55 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 9GB | 96GB | 35.62 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 17GB | 96GB | 18.49 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |