Apple M2 Max meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M2 Max can run lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit with Q4 quantization. At approximately 30 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 81GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 15GB | 96GB | 29.75 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 31GB | 96GB | 19.17 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 61GB | 96GB | 12.20 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |