MacBook Air M4 32GB

Apple · M4 · 32GB Unified Memory · Can run 41 models

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Manufacturer Apple
Unified Mem 32 GB
Chip M4
CPU Cores 10
GPU Cores 10
Neural Engine 16
Bandwidth 120 GB/s
MSRP $1,299
Released Mar 12, 2025

AI Notes

The MacBook Air M4 32GB is the best ultrabook for local AI. With 32GB unified memory, it handles 13B models comfortably and can run 30B models with Q4 quantization. The fanless design runs completely silent. An excellent portable development machine for AI work.

Compatible Models

Model Parameters Best Quant VRAM Used Fit Est. Speed
Gemma 3 1B 1B Q8_0 2 GB Runs ~60 tok/s
Llama 3.2 1B 1B Q8_0 3 GB Runs ~40 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 1.5B 1.5B Q8_0 3 GB Runs ~40 tok/s
Gemma 2 2B 2B Q8_0 4 GB Runs ~30 tok/s
Llama 3.2 3B 3B Q8_0 5 GB Runs ~24 tok/s
Phi-3 Mini 3.8B 3.8B Q8_0 5.8 GB Runs ~21 tok/s
Phi-4 Mini 3.8B 3.8B Q4_K_M 4.5 GB Runs ~27 tok/s
Gemma 3 4B 4B Q4_K_M 5 GB Runs ~24 tok/s
Qwen 3 4B 4B Q4_K_M 4.5 GB Runs ~27 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
Mistral 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B 7B Q8_0 9 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 8B 8B Q4_K_M 7.5 GB Runs ~16 tok/s
Llama 3.1 8B 8B Q8_0 10 GB Runs ~12 tok/s
Qwen 3 8B 8B Q4_K_M 7.5 GB Runs ~16 tok/s
Gemma 2 9B 9B Q8_0 11 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
Gemma 3 12B 12B Q4_K_M 10.5 GB Runs ~11 tok/s
Mistral Nemo 12B 12B Q4_K_M 9.5 GB Runs ~13 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~12 tok/s
Phi-4 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~12 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 14B 14B Q4_K_M 9.9 GB Runs ~12 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B 14B Q4_K_M 12 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
Qwen 3 14B 14B Q4_K_M 12 GB Runs ~10 tok/s
StarCoder2 15B 15B Q8_0 17 GB Runs ~7 tok/s
Codestral 22B 22B Q4_K_M 14.7 GB Runs ~8 tok/s
Devstral 24B 24B Q4_K_M 17 GB Runs ~7 tok/s
Mistral Small 3.1 24B 24B Q4_K_M 18 GB Runs ~7 tok/s
Gemma 2 27B 27B Q4_K_M 17.7 GB Runs ~7 tok/s
Gemma 3 27B 27B Q4_K_M 20 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE) 30B Q4_K_M 22 GB Runs ~5 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 32B 32B Q4_K_M 20.7 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 32B 32B Q4_K_M 20.7 GB Runs ~6 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B 32B Q4_K_M 23 GB Runs ~5 tok/s
Qwen 3 32B 32B Q4_K_M 23 GB Runs ~5 tok/s
Command R 35B 35B Q4_K_M 22.5 GB Runs ~5 tok/s
Mixtral 8x7B 47B Q4_K_M 29.7 GB Runs (tight) ~4 tok/s
DeepSeek R1 70B 70B Q4_K_M 43.5 GB CPU Offload ~3 tok/s
Llama 3.1 70B 70B Q4_K_M 43.5 GB CPU Offload ~3 tok/s
Llama 3.3 70B 70B Q4_K_M 43.5 GB CPU Offload ~3 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 72B 72B Q4_K_M 44.7 GB CPU Offload ~3 tok/s
2 model(s) are too large for this hardware.