Command R on Apple M4 Max · 128GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Command R 35B @ Q8_0
Command R 35B at Q8_0 needs ~46.3 GB (weights 34.6 GB + KV 10.0 GB + overhead 1.7 GB @ 8K ctx) of your 93.0 GB usable (of 128 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~5–8 tok/s (slow).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 16K · runs to 32K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✓ Q8_046.3 GB~5–8 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q5_K_M34.3 GB~7–11 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q4_K_M30.7 GB~7–12 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q3_K_M26.7 GB~9–14 tok/s (usable)
$runlocal install command-r:35b
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Command R: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M4 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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