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MiniMax M2.7 ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence. Model picker is focused on current-market choices.

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Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Headroom	Context	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB 16-inch	212	3bit Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-3bit - 112 GB min	40.4 tok/s Fastest evidence path: 3bit · 40.4 tok/s · Best available · Field signal	Best available	Fits	16.0 GB	116k	Field signal	$5,399	3bit is the current best practical quantization. 40.4 tok/s only comes from Apple Silicon field signals. 16.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	100	6bit Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-6bit - 200 GB min	Measure it	Best available	Fits	56.0 GB	205k	Fit-first	$7,499	6bit is the current best practical quantization. Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-6bit - 200 GB min backs the fit read; speed still needs direct benchmark coverage. 56.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	58	5bit Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-5bit - 172 GB min	Measure it	Best available	Fits	20.0 GB	146k	Fit-first	$6,999	5bit is the current best practical quantization. Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-5bit - 172 GB min backs the fit read; speed still needs direct benchmark coverage. 20.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	42	3bit Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-3bit - 112 GB min	Measure it	Best available	Fits	16.0 GB	116k	Fit-first	$4,499	3bit is the current best practical quantization. Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-3bit - 112 GB min backs the fit read; speed still needs direct benchmark coverage. 16.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	42	3bit Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-3bit - 112 GB min	Measure it	Best available	Fits	16.0 GB	116k	Fit-first	$5,999	3bit is the current best practical quantization. Source-backed MLX MiniMax-M2.7-3bit - 112 GB min backs the fit read; speed still needs direct benchmark coverage. 16.0 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	30	mlx-dynamic-2.7bpw	Measure it	Best available	Fits	21.7 GB	39k	Fit-first	$3,999	mlx-dynamic-2.7bpw is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct speed coverage. 21.7 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	Mac Mini M4 16GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-838.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Mini M4 16GB at the current practical quantization.
8	Mac Mini M4 24GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$599	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Mini M4 24GB at the current practical quantization.
9	Mac Mini M4 32GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-822.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$799	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Mini M4 32GB at the current practical quantization.
10	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-838.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,099	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
11	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,299	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
12	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-838.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,299	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
13	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,399	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB at the current practical quantization.
14	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-822.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
15	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
16	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,599	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB at the current practical quantization.
17	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-822.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,699	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
18	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch at the current practical quantization.
19	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-818.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$1,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB at the current practical quantization.
20	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch at the current practical quantization.
21	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-830.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.
22	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB at the current practical quantization.
23	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-818.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch at the current practical quantization.
24	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.
25	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-790.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$2,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB at the current practical quantization.
26	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$3,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch at the current practical quantization.
27	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-818.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$3,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.
28	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-806.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$3,999	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.
29	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	Best available	No	-790.4 GB	—	Fit-first	$4,499	MiniMax M2.7 does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.

MiniMax M2.7 — ranking first, catalog record below

Start with the ranked Mac table above. Use the rest of this page to inspect raw Apple Silicon coverage and model metadata.

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Quick take

MiniMax M2.7 is cataloged because Apple Silicon buyers are already searching for it. MiniMax M2.7: 1 practitioner claim; 1 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 128GB, Mac; runtime mentions: oMLX; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, operational_caution, runtime_tuning. Use the ranking above for the current best Mac path, then open Bench when direct evidence lands.

1 practitioner signal tracked so far, no benchmarks yet.

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Catalog record

228.7BTotal params

DenseActive params

204,800Context window

2026-03-18Release date

No Apple Silicon benchmark rows are published for this model yet.

What this model is, and what Apple Silicon users are actually seeing

Official model cards tell you what the model is for and which software stacks it targets. Field reality below shows how much Apple Silicon evidence we have so far.

Official brief

MiniMax-M2.7 is our first model deeply participating in its own evolution. M2.7 is capable of building complex agent harnesses and completing highly elaborate productivity tasks, leveraging Agent Teams, complex Skills, and dynamic tool search. For more details, see our blog post.

Official source · Raw model card

agentscodingreasoning

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMSGLangTransformersMLXllama.cppLM Studio

Official specs

Architecture: MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM.
Context: 204800 tokens.
Experts: 8 active / 256 total.
Layers: 62.
Attention heads: 48 query / 8 KV.
Total parameters: 228.704B.

Official takeaways

On SWE-Pro, M2.7 achieved 56.22%, matching GPT-5.3-Codex, with even stronger performance on real-world engineering benchmarks: SWE Multilingual (76.5) and Multi SWE Bench (52.7).
M2.7 delivers outstanding real-world programming capabilities spanning log analysis, bug troubleshooting, refactoring, code security, and machine learning.
M2.7 is capable of building complex agent harnesses and completing highly elaborate productivity tasks, leveraging Agent Teams, complex Skills, and dynamic tool search.
It handles Word, Excel, and PPT with high-fidelity multi-round editing, producing editable deliverables.

Deployment notes

Official local guide supports MiniMax-M2.7 deployment through MLX on Apple Silicon Mac Studio, alongside vLLM and SGLang for Linux GPU servers.
Official MLX sizing lists 3-bit at 100GB model size / 112GB minimum memory and 4-bit MXFP4 at 122GB / 136GB minimum memory.
Official M4 Max 128GB guidance recommends 3-bit or 4-bit MXFP4, with 4-bit MXFP4 described as tight with limited context.
Official M3 Ultra guidance recommends 6-bit on 256GB; 512GB is recommended for 8-bit-gs32, while BF16 leaves only about 55GB headroom.

Apple Silicon note: Official local guide supports MiniMax-M2.7 deployment through MLX on Apple Silicon Mac Studio, alongside vLLM and SGLang for Linux GPU servers.

Official model cards describe intent, capabilities, and supported stacks. They do not prove Apple Silicon speed by themselves.

Field reality on Apple Silicon

MiniMax M2.7: 5 Apple Silicon field reports; best reported generation ~55.5 tok/s; best reported prompt processing ~1270 tok/s; reported RAM use ~87.4-95.1GB; seen on M5 MAX 128GB; via oMLX.

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5Field reports

1Practitioner signals

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What practitioners keep saying

The oMLX detail page reports MiniMax-M2.7-ConfigI on M5 Max 40-core GPU with 128GB unified memory, 4-bit quantization, oMLX v0.3.4, and macOS 26.4.
The oMLX context table reports MiniMax-M2.7-ConfigI 4bit on an M5 Max 40-core 128GB Mac at 1024 tokens context with 849.9 tok/s prompt processing, 55.5 tok/s generation, and peak memory at 87.4GB.
The oMLX context table reports MiniMax-M2.7-ConfigI 4bit on an M5 Max 40-core 128GB Mac at 4096 tokens context with 1270 tok/s prompt processing, 47.4 tok/s generation, and peak memory at 88.4GB.

Apple Silicon field sources

oMLX community benchmarks
2026-04-13 · M5 Max 40-core GPU, 128GB unified memory · oMLX v0.3.4
An oMLX community row shows MiniMax-M2.7-ConfigI running locally on an M5 Max 128GB Apple Silicon setup at 4-bit across 1k through 32k context, making it a live frontier fit candidate for Silicon Score's featured Mac workflow.

Runtime mentions in the field

oMLX

Hardware mentioned in reports

128GBMac

What would improve confidence

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Current published coverage

This page stays published because the model is in the current frontier catalog, but Apple Silicon speed coverage is still missing.

Raw benchmark rows for MiniMax M2.7

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No benchmark rows are published yet for this model. The ranking above still shows the best current Mac fit path, but the benchmark section stays empty until direct Apple Silicon measurements land.

Data

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