Apple
Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB with 128 GB unified memory. Apple's first custom silicon for Mac, delivering excellent power efficiency and unified memory architecture for local AI inference.
Architecture
Apple M1 is the first Apple Silicon chip for Mac, featuring a unified memory architecture where CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine share the same high-bandwidth memory pool. Available in base, Pro, Max, and Ultra variants with 16-128 GB unified memory.
AI Relevance
Unified memory architecture is a game-changer for LLM inference — the entire memory pool is accessible to both CPU and GPU, eliminating the discrete VRAM bottleneck. An M1 Max with 64 GB can run 30B+ models that would be impossible on a 24 GB discrete GPU.
First-generation Apple Silicon with 8-core GPU. The unified memory architecture is particularly beneficial for LLM inference as it eliminates the PCIe bottleneck that discrete GPUs face when offloading.
Agentic Coding
CThis model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Chat
CThis model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Coding
CThis model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
RAG
CThis model is a direct match for rag. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Reasoning
CThis model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Llama 3.3 70BQwen 2.5 72BQwen 2.5 VL 72B
Mistral Small 4 119BQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3.5 35B A3BDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQwen3.5 9BQwen 2.5 Coder 32BQwen3.5 27BQwen3.5 4Bgemma 3 27b itDevstral Small 2 24B InstructQwen2.5 3B InstructDevstral Small 1.1
gemma 2bCodestral 2 25.08Qwen3.5 122B A10BQwen2.5 1.5B InstructMixtral 8x22B
Command A 111BDevstral 2 123B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 671B
GLM-5
Kimi K2.5Mistral Large 3Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructDeepSeek V3 671BQwen 3 235B A22BQwen3.5 397B A17BLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128EJust out of reach
High-quality models that need a bit more memory
Upgrade paths
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Upgrade options
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