iMac M3 24GB

Apple · M3 · 24GB Unified Memory · Can run 37 models

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Manufacturer Apple
Unified Mem 24 GB
Chip M3
CPU Cores 8
GPU Cores 10
Neural Engine 16
Bandwidth 100 GB/s
MSRP $1,499
Released Nov 7, 2023

AI Notes

The iMac M3 24GB is a beautiful all-in-one with enough memory for local AI. It runs 7B models quickly and handles 13B models with quantization at moderate speeds. The 100 GB/s bandwidth matches the base M2 and M3 chips. A good desktop option for casual AI experimentation with a great display.

Compatible Models

Model Parameters Best Quant VRAM Used Fit Est. Speed
Gemma 3 1B 1B Q8_0 2 GB Runs ~50 tok/s
Llama 3.2 1B 1B Q8_0 3 GB Runs ~33 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 1.5B 1.5B Q8_0 3 GB Runs ~33 tok/s
Gemma 2 2B 2B Q8_0 4 GB Runs ~25 tok/s
Llama 3.2 3B 3B Q8_0 5 GB Runs ~20 tok/s
Phi-3 Mini 3.8B 3.8B Q8_0 5.8 GB Runs ~17 tok/s
Phi-4 Mini 3.8B 3.8B Q4_K_M 4.5 GB Runs ~22 tok/s
Gemma 3 4B 4B Q4_K_M 5 GB Runs ~20 tok/s
Qwen 3 4B 4B Q4_K_M 4.5 GB Runs ~22 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
Mistral 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 8B 8B Q4_K_M 7.5 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
Llama 3.1 8B 8B Q8_0 10 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Qwen 3 8B 8B Q4_K_M 7.5 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
Gemma 2 9B 9B Q8_0 11 GB Runs ~9 tok/s
Gemma 3 12B 12B Q4_K_M 10.5 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Mistral Nemo 12B 12B Q4_K_M 9.5 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Phi-4 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B 14B Q4_K_M 12 GB Runs ~8 tok/s
Qwen 3 14B 14B Q4_K_M 12 GB Runs ~8 tok/s
StarCoder2 15B 15B Q8_0 17 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Codestral 22B 22B Q4_K_M 14.7 GB Runs ~7 tok/s
Devstral 24B 24B Q4_K_M 17 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Mistral Small 3.1 24B 24B Q4_K_M 18 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Gemma 2 27B 27B Q4_K_M 17.7 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Gemma 3 27B 27B Q4_K_M 20 GB Runs ~5 tok/s
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE) 30B Q4_K_M 22 GB Runs (tight) ~5 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 32B 32B Q4_K_M 20.7 GB Runs (tight) ~5 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 32B 32B Q4_K_M 20.7 GB Runs (tight) ~5 tok/s
Command R 35B 35B Q4_K_M 22.5 GB Runs (tight) ~4 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B 32B Q4_K_M 23 GB CPU Offload ~4 tok/s
Qwen 3 32B 32B Q4_K_M 23 GB CPU Offload ~4 tok/s
Mixtral 8x7B 47B Q4_K_M 29.7 GB CPU Offload ~3 tok/s
6 model(s) are too large for this hardware.