§01·tested · /gpus/m4-max
Recipes tested on Apple M4 Max
21 community-tested setups — recipes whose author ran them on this exact card.
appleapple series48GB unified
- imageintermediate32GB+recipe
Qwen-Image-2.1 on Apple M4 Max 48 GB: 8-bit mflux, Third-Party 64 GB Timings, ComfyUI Edits
- llmadvanced36GB+recipe
Apodex 1.1 mini on Apple M4 Max: a 262K-context agent server on MLX
- multimodalintermediate48GB+recipe
Qwen3.8-27B on Apple M4 Max: 4-bit MLX Vision-Language at the Full 262K Context
- multimodaladvanced36GB+recipe
Muse Glimmer 30B on Apple M4 Max: ExecuTorch Metal agent server with vision and DFlash
- llmintermediate36GB+recipe
Nanbeige4.2-3B on Apple M4 Max: 546 GB/s for a stack that streams twice
- multimodaladvanced48GB+recipe
Fara1.5-27B on Apple M4 Max: Browser Computer-Use Agent on llama.cpp Metal
- multimodaladvanced32GB+recipe
Fara1.5-9B on Apple M4 Max: Browser Computer-Use Agent on llama.cpp Metal
- multimodaladvanced24GB+recipe
Fara1.5-4B on Apple M4 Max: Browser Computer-Use Agent at Full 262K Context
- llmadvanced48GB+recipe
Ornith 1.0 35B on Apple M4 Max: Local Agentic Coding via llama.cpp Metal + OpenHands (48GB Unified Memory)
- imageintermediate24GB+recipe
Krea 2 Turbo on Apple M4 Max: 8-Step Text-to-Image in Unified Memory via ComfyUI (MPS)
- 3dadvanced17GB+recipe
TRELLIS.2-4B on Apple M4 Max: image-to-3D in unified memory via the community Metal port
- videoadvanced34GB+recipe
LTX-2.3 on Apple M4 Max: experimental 22B audio-video in unified memory via Draw Things (Metal) or MLX
- ttsbeginner2GB+recipe
VoxCPM-0.5B on Apple M4 Max: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning TTS in Unified Memory (MPS)
- ttsbeginner1GB+recipe
Kokoro TTS on Apple M4 Max: 82M Text-to-Speech, 54 Voices, Native MLX-Audio
- imageintermediate23GB+recipe
Qwen-Image on Apple M4 Max: 20B text-to-image in unified memory with mflux
- imagebeginner17GB+recipe
Z-Image Turbo on Apple M4 Max: 8-step 1024x1024 text-to-image in unified memory with mflux
- multimodalbeginner5GB+recipe
Gemma 4 E4B on Apple M4 Max: local vision-language inference in unified memory with MLX-VLM
- llmbeginner5GB+recipe
Llama 3.1 8B on Apple M4 Max: the easy local-LLM on-ramp in unified memory with MLX
- llmbeginner13GB+recipe
gpt-oss 20B on Apple M4 Max: native-MXFP4 chat in 48 GB unified memory with MLX
- llmintermediate19GB+recipe
Qwen3-32B on Apple M4 Max: 32B local chat with MLX 4-bit in 48 GB unified memory
- llmadvanced40GB+recipe
Llama 3.3 70B on Apple M4 Max: 70B-class chat in 48 GB unified memory with MLX