Apple Silicon (Mac)
Also known as: M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 · Apple GPU
Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) Macs are a popular local-LLM platform thanks to fast unified memory and strong Metal support.
- Unified memory shared by CPU + GPU.
- 16–64+ GB configurations let bigger models fit.
- Excellent price/performance for on-device inference.
The "big memory" route: a 32–64 GB Mac can run 13B–70B models that no consumer Windows GPU touches — at the cost of lower raw speed.