Can Mac mini M4 32GB run Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct?

Apple · 32 GB LPDDR5X · 120 GB/s bandwidth · Meta · 405.9B · model ctx up to 128K

No — Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct at Q4 needs ≈ 264.75 GB even at 4K context, beyond the Mac mini M4 32GB's 32 GB LPDDR5X. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. FP16 needs ≈ 893.8 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	264.75 GB	No	—
Q4	8K default	305.25 GB	No	—
Q4	32K	548.25 GB	No	—
FP16	4K	853.3 GB	No	—
FP16	8K default	893.8 GB	No	—
FP16	32K	1136.8 GB	No	—

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	Mac mini M4 32GB VRAM
Q4	223.25 GB	81.0 GB	1 GB	305.25 GB	32 GB
FP16	811.8 GB	81.0 GB	1 GB	893.8 GB	32 GB

Other GPUs that run Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct

No catalog GPU fully fits Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct at Q4/8K — see the model page for offload estimates.

All GPUs for Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct →

Other models for the Mac mini M4 32GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈95.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈76.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈63.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈41.3 tok/s Q4 measured
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈38.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈25.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈25.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈25.5 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the Mac mini M4 32GB →