Apple M4 Max — Benchmarks & Specs

Bottom line: how fast is the Apple M4 Max?

SpecPicks median: 51.2 tokens/sec across 3 cited single-user runs of 7-9B dense models at 4-bit (Q4) under llama.cpp (range 16.9–83.1 tok/s), from llama.cpp GitHub Discussions, Markaicode, LocalLLaMA. For local LLM inference it generates 12.5 tokens/sec running llama3.1:70b at q4_K_M under llama.cpp on a machine with 128 GB of unified memory (46.2 GB peak use), per Markaicode. Unified memory is the binding constraint for local inference: the Apple M4 Max ships in configurations of up to 128 GB, per the manufacturer spec sheet, and a 70B model at q4_K_M needs roughly 42 GB for its weights alone (70B parameters at ~4.85 bits per weight, per llama.cpp), so it runs only on configurations with more unified memory than that. In PassMark CPU Mark it scores 43,971–44,003 pts, across three published results (PassMark CPU benchmark listing, Nanoreview/PassMark CPU benchmark listing, PassMark CPU benchmark listing). Across all its cores it scores 27,108–27,595 points in Cinebench R23 multi, across two published results (Notebookcheck, AppleInsider).

Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from; the memory ceiling and the weight-size estimate are not table rows and link to their sources inline; the SpecPicks median is computed here from the runs it names, each a row in the AI table. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.