Llama 3.2 Vision on Apple M2 Ultra · 192GB

✅ 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 141 GB usable (of 192 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~20–35 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 128K
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✓ Q8_012.3 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M7.8 GB~30–55 tok/s (fast)
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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 M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M2 Ultra: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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