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Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max · 36GB: specifications and local LLMs

36 GB unified memory and 460 GB/s rated memory bandwidth. 460GB/s unified memory; portable local-AI development; faster model decode potential than the M5 Pro tier; mature Apple-silicon runtimes; Thunderbolt 5.

Catalog reviewed . Listing evidence: 2026-10-04. Price and performance records retain their own dates.

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CPU, GPU, memory and storage

CPU
Apple M5 Max · 18-core · 18 cores / 18 threads
GPU
Apple M5 Max GPU · 32-core
Installed memory
36 GB · Unified · 460 GB/s · Amazon.com ASIN listing
Unified memory, not separate VRAM
36 GB shared with CPU and operating system
Memory bandwidth
460 GB/s rated / theoretical · Apple-published memory bandwidth for the 32-core GPU M5 Max configuration.
Storage
2000 GB · Amazon.com ASIN listing
Operating system
macOS (manufacturer)
Expansion
Three Thunderbolt 5 ports; HDMI; SDXC slot; MagSafe 3; Wi-Fi 7; Bluetooth 6

Fixed 36GB memory is modest relative to the system price and constrains larger models; no CUDA support; internal memory and storage are not user-upgradeable; Amazon main-offer price and stock were not verified.

Amazon identifies this exact ASIN as the silver 14.2-inch M5 Max model with 36GB unified memory, 2TB SSD and no AppleCare+. This is the 32-core-GPU M5 Max, not the 40-core-GPU configuration.

The direct Amazon.com page identifies ASIN B0GR19XLMB as the silver 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max, 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36GB unified memory and 2TB SSD without AppleCare+. Apple technical and store pages match the configuration. Current seller, stock and checkout price can change.

What local models could MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max · 36GB run?

The 36 GB unified-memory pool gives a 25.2 GB initial weight budget using our 30% (minimum 2 GB) reserve. The CPU, GPU and OS share this capacity; software allocation limits still apply.

125 catalog files pass this size check. The largest is NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B at 24.574 GB (Q4_K_M). This is a catalog weight limit, not a measured maximum practical model size. Context length, runtime and architecture support can rule out a candidate.

Model snapshot: 14 October 2026. The examples below use MMLU-Pro; models without that score are not ranked in this table.

MMLU-Pro memory candidates · GB = 1 billion bytes. Published scores may use different settings or precision.
Model / quantizationWeightsParametersScore / 100Score / GBBudget leftSources
Qwen3.5-4BQ4_K_M · Pareto choice2.741 GB4.206B79.128.85922.459 GBGet weights
Score source
MiniCPM5 2BQ4_K_M · Pareto choice1.561 GB2.517B70.845.34623.639 GBGet weights
Score source
Qwen3.5-9BQ4_K_M · Pareto choice5.681 GB9.653B82.514.52319.519 GBGet weights
Score source
LFM2.5 230MQ4_K_M · Pareto choice0.153 GB0.23B20.25132.00225.047 GBGet weights
Score source
Qwen3.5-27BQ4_K_M · Pareto choice16.741 GB27.781B86.15.1438.459 GBGet weights
Score source

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Published LLM performance

Local AI Stats has not tested this computer. No matching token-speed result is recorded for this configuration.

Advertised compute peaks and bandwidth are not tokens per second. Compare the same model, quantization, context and concurrency.

Price and value

ASIN: B0GR19XLMB · Amazon.com listing

$3,599 USD reference. Apple US launch price announced 3 March 2026: USD 3,599. Dated manufacturer reference, not an Amazon offer; tax and shipping may differ.

Reference price per installed-memory GB: $99.972. This measures cost per GB, not speed or total running cost.

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