Apple M3 Max~59 tok/s (Q4)

lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit speed on Apple M3 Max

Quantization-specific throughput and VRAM requirements for lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit running on Apple M3 Max.

Speed Snapshot

Topline estimate from compatibility data

Modellmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit

GPUApple M3 Max

Q4 speed59 tok/s

Q4 VRAM required4GB

Data Source

Calculation and benchmark status

Speed values come from the compatibility dataset (`estimatedTokensPerSec`) and are sorted by quantization.

For full verdict logic and alternate GPUs, see the canonical compatibility page.

Quantization Speed Table

Quantization	VRAM needed	VRAM available	Speed	Verdict
Q4	4GB	128GB	59 tok/s	✅ Fits
Q8	9GB	128GB	39 tok/s	✅ Fits
FP16	17GB	128GB	21 tok/s	✅ Fits