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Home/Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E/on MacBook Pro M4 Max 96GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 96GB run Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in vLLM

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

4.2 tok/s

TTFT

45868 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

259.4 GB / 69.1 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights244.0 GB
KV Cache2.7 GB
Runtime2.4 GB
Headroom10.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy4.2 tok/s66717 ms8K
ChatFToo heavy4.2 tok/s25019 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy4.2 tok/s45868 ms4K
RAGFToo heavy4.2 tok/s83396 ms8K
ReasoningFToo heavy4.2 tok/s54207 ms4K

Quantization options

How Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E (400B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Max 96GB (69.1 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
156.0 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
196.0 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
224.0 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
244.0 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
288.0 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
328.0 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
428.0 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
820.0 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E well

AMDAMD Instinct MI350X 288GBBest value
C71.7 tok/s decode

~$8,000 MSRP

AMDAMD Instinct MI325X 256GBBiggest leap
C50.6 tok/s decode

 

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