Apple M4 Max~44 tok/s (Q4)

lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit speed on Apple M4 Max

Quantization-specific throughput and VRAM requirements for lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit running on Apple M4 Max.

Speed Snapshot

Topline estimate from compatibility data

Modellmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit

GPUApple M4 Max

Q4 speed44 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	44 tok/s	✅ Fits
Q8	31GB	128GB	27 tok/s	✅ Fits
FP16	61GB	128GB	16 tok/s	✅ Fits