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Can I run this LLM?

Can a MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB) run Qwen3.5 4B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 128.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 4B at FP16 · 8.4 GB · 33–50 tok/s on a MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q3_K_M2.3 GB74–111 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M2.7 GB68–102 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M3.1 GB63–95 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K3.5 GB59–89 tok/sRuns great
Q8_04.5 GB51–77 tok/sRuns great
FP168.4 GB33–50 tok/sRuns great

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