Phi-3.5-mini on Apple M4 Max · 128GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B @ Q8_0
Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B at Q8_0 needs ~7.3 GB (weights 3.8 GB + KV 3.0 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 93.0 GB usable (of 128 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~35–55 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 128K
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✓ Q8_07.3 GB~35–55 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q5_K_M6.0 GB~40–65 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M5.7 GB~45–70 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install phi3.5:3.8b
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Phi-3.5-mini: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M4 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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