Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) × Qwen3 8B
Can the Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) run Qwen3 8B?
Yes
Yes. The Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) can run Qwen3 8B at up to F16 (needs ~18.9 GB of 48.0 GB usable), at an estimated ~51.0 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 66.31 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 6.1 GB | ✅ | ~63.4 |
| Q4_K_M | 7.1 GB | ✅ | ~51.0 |
| Q5_K_M | 8.0 GB | ✅ | ~43.4 |
| Q6_K | 9.0 GB | ✅ | ~37.5 |
| Q8_0 | 11.0 GB | ✅ | ~29.1 |
| F16 | 18.9 GB | ✅ | ~15.5 |
Fastest hardware for Qwen3 8B
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~223 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~143 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~142 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — ~140 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — ~136 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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