Phi-4 on Apple M3 Max · 36GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Phi-4 14B @ Q8_0
Phi-4 14B at Q8_0 needs ~16.8 GB (weights 14.5 GB + KV 1.6 GB + overhead 743 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.1 GB usable (of 36.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~11–18 tok/s (usable).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 8K · runs to its full 16K
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✓ Q8_016.8 GB~11–18 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q5_K_M11.9 GB~15–25 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M10.5 GB~18–30 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q3_K_M8.9 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
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Phi-4: 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 M3 Max: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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