Laptop
Apple MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Pro, 48GB)
macOS
16-inch MacBook Pro, M4 Pro, 48GB unified memory (1TB SSD baseline).
Memory
48 GB
GPUs
1×
RAM
48 GB
Models
29
Type
Laptop
Inference Memory
48 GB
Accelerator
48 GB
System RAM
48 GB
OS
macOS
Laptop Performance Note
Laptop GPU performance varies by cooling and power limits. Listed tok/s reflect sustained loads, not short bursts; your unit may differ.
What it can run
29 models| Arcee Trinity Mini 26B | Q8_0 | 14 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Arcee Trinity Nano 6B | Q8_0 | 59 tok/s | Excellent |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | Q8_0 | 38 tok/s | Good |
| DeepSeek V3 | Q2_K | – | Not viable |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q5_K_M | 8 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | 42 tok/s | Good |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | 6 tok/s | Marginal |
| Gemma 4 E2B | Q8_0 | 41 tok/s | Good |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | 25 tok/s | Acceptable |
| GigaChat Lightning 10B | Q8_0 | 61 tok/s | Excellent |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Q4_K_M | 6 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Q8_0 | 32 tok/s | Good |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision | Q8_0 | 30 tok/s | Good |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Q8_0 | 90 tok/s | Excellent |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Q8_0 | 60 tok/s | Excellent |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Q4_K_M | 12 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Llama 4 Scout | Q3_K_M | 6 tok/s | Marginal |
| nomic-embed-text v1.5 | FP16 | – | Excellent |
| NVIDIA Nemotron-3-super-120B-A12B | Q2_K | 50 tok/s | Good |
| Phi-4 14B | Q5_K_M | 35 tok/s | Good |
| Phi-4 Mini | Q8_0 | 55 tok/s | Excellent |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Q4_K_M | 10 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Qwen3-14B Instruct | Q8_0 | 25 tok/s | Good |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Q5_K_M | 36 tok/s | Good |
| Qwen3.5-27B | Q8_0 | 9 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Qwen3.5-397B (MoE) | Q2_K | – | Not viable |
| Qwen3.6-27B | Q8_0 | 9 tok/s | Acceptable |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | FP16 | – | Acceptable |
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo | FP16 | – | Excellent |
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Best Fit
Who this machine makes sense for
This machine is best for people who need portable local AI and are willing to trade some sustained throughput for mobility. 48 GB is enough to make the form factor relevant, not just convenient.
Before You Buy
What to verify first
Pay attention to sustained power limits, fan noise, and battery-mode behavior. Laptop AI performance is often bounded by cooling and power policy more than spec-sheet peak numbers.