Llama 3.2 Vision on Apple M2 Pro · 32GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Llama 3.2 Vision 11B @ Q8_0
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B at Q8_0 needs ~12.3 GB (weights 10.6 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 541 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 18.4 GB usable (of 32.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~9–15 tok/s (usable).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 16K · runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✓ Q8_012.3 GB~9–15 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q4_K_M7.8 GB~14–25 tok/s (usable)
$runlocal install llama3.2-vision:11b
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Llama 3.2 Vision: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M4 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M2 Pro: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Mistral Small 3 · Qwen3 · Llama 3.1 · Qwen2.5

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Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
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Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
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…and 6 more — see the Llama 3.2 Vision page.

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