Apple M2 Max~31 tok/s (Q4)

lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit speed on Apple M2 Max

Quantization-specific throughput and VRAM requirements for lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit running on Apple M2 Max.

Speed Snapshot

Topline estimate from compatibility data

Modellmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit

GPUApple M2 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	96GB	31 tok/s	✅ Fits
Q8	31GB	96GB	21 tok/s	✅ Fits
FP16	61GB	96GB	11 tok/s	✅ Fits