Apple M3 Max meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M3 Max can run unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit with Q4 quantization. At approximately 17 tokens/second, you can expect Basic speed - best for non-interactive tasks.
You have 112GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 16GB | 128GB | 17.10 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 33GB | 128GB | 13.59 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 66GB | 128GB | 7.43 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |