M5
Best Apple M5 Pro and Max for Local AI (2026)
M5 Pro at 307GB/s, M5 Max at 614GB/s, up to 128GB unified memory. What works, what doesn't, and the May 2026 picks for Qwen 3.6 and Llama 3.3 70B.
Best Local LLMs for Mac in 2026 — M1 through M5 Tested
The best models to run on every Mac tier. Specific picks for 8GB M1 through 192GB M3 Ultra, with real tok/s numbers. Qwen 3.6, Llama 4 Scout, DeepSeek V4, MLX vs Ollama, updated May 2026.
Best VRAM Cheat Sheet for Local LLMs: Every Model, Every Quant
Exact VRAM for Qwen 3.6, Qwen 3.5, Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek at Q3 through FP16. Lookup tables for 7B, 9B, 13B, 27B, 32B, 70B, and 120B models with real measurements and GPU recommendations. Updated May 2026.