Apple M4 Max meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M4 Max can run unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit with Q4 quantization. At approximately 24 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 112GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 16GB | 128GB | 23.92 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 33GB | 128GB | 17.84 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 66GB | 128GB | 10.35 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |