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can it run

Can the Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB) run WHISPER large-v3?

YES

Comfortably. 128GB of memory against a 8GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~48–70 tok/s

weights 6.2GB + KV cache 2GB at 4k context vs ~126GB usable → full. 8.2 GB needed of 126 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 546 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 6.2GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file6.2GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory8GB working set
this machine128GB unified
paramslarge-v3
licenseapache-2.0
price$3499

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: no stock runtime yet

Alternatives

no alternatives — every machine in the catalog can run this one.

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