Apple M4 Pro~19 tok/s (Q4)

lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit speed on Apple M4 Pro

Quantization-specific throughput and VRAM requirements for lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit running on Apple M4 Pro.

Speed Snapshot

Topline estimate from compatibility data

Modellmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-8bit

GPUApple M4 Pro

Q4 speed19 tok/s

Q4 VRAM required15GB

Data Source

Calculation and benchmark status

Speed values come from the compatibility dataset (`estimatedTokensPerSec`) and are sorted by quantization.

For full verdict logic and alternate GPUs, see the canonical compatibility page.

Quantization Speed Table

Quantization	VRAM needed	VRAM available	Speed	Verdict
Q4	15GB	64GB	19 tok/s	✅ Fits
Q8	31GB	64GB	14 tok/s	✅ Fits
FP16	61GB	64GB	7 tok/s	✅ Fits