Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB run Kimi-K2-Thinking?
Apple · 128 GB LPDDR5X · 546 GB/s bandwidth ·
Moonshot · 1058.1B (active 32B) · MoE · model ctx up to 256K
No — Kimi-K2-Thinking at Q4 needs ≈ 586.16 GB even at 4K context, beyond the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB's 128 GB LPDDR5X. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. FP16 needs ≈ 2123.6 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
586.16 GB
No
—
Q4
8K default
589.36 GB
No
—
Q4
32K
608.56 GB
No
—
FP16
4K
2120.4 GB
No
—
FP16
8K default
2123.6 GB
No
—
FP16
32K
2142.8 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
MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB VRAM
Q4
581.96 GB
6.4 GB
1 GB
589.36 GB
128 GB
FP16
2116.2 GB
6.4 GB
1 GB
2123.6 GB
128 GB
Other GPUs that run Kimi-K2-Thinking
No catalog GPU fully fits Kimi-K2-Thinking at Q4/8K — see the model page for offload estimates.