Apple M3 Max~31 tok/s (Q4)

lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit speed on Apple M3 Max

Quantization-specific throughput and VRAM requirements for lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit running on Apple M3 Max.

Speed Snapshot

Topline estimate from compatibility data

Modellmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit

GPUApple M3 Max

Q4 speed31 tok/s

Q4 VRAM required15GB

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	15GB	128GB	31 tok/s	✅ Fits
Q8	31GB	128GB	21 tok/s	✅ Fits
FP16	61GB	128GB	11 tok/s	✅ Fits