Can MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB run MiniMax-M2.7?

Apple · 128 GB LPDDR5 · 400 GB/s bandwidth · MiniMax · 228.7B (active 10B) · MoE · model ctx up to 200K

No — MiniMax-M2.7 at Q4 needs ≈ 127.79 GB even at 4K context, beyond the MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB's 128 GB LPDDR5. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 71.8 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 460.4 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	127.79 GB	No	73.0 est.
Q4	8K default	128.79 GB	No	71.8 est.
Q4	32K	134.79 GB	No	65.6 est.
FP16	4K	459.4 GB	No	1.6 est.
FP16	8K default	460.4 GB	No	1.5 est.
FP16	32K	466.4 GB	No	1.5 est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB VRAM
Q4	125.79 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	128.79 GB	128 GB
FP16	457.4 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	460.4 GB	128 GB

Other GPUs that run MiniMax-M2.7

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈509.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈337.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈305.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈50.9 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for MiniMax-M2.7 →

Other models for the MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈318.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈254.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈212.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈127.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈84.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈84.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈84.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈84.8 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the MacBook Pro M3 Max 128GB →