Mistral Small 3 on Apple M2 Pro · 32GB

✅ Runs (tight) — Mistral Small 3 24B @ Q5_K_M
Mistral Small 3 24B at Q5_K_M needs ~17.6 GB (weights 15.6 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 799 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 18.4 GB usable (of 32.0 GB unified memory) — fits, but little headroom — close other apps or trim context. Expect ~6–10 tok/s (slow).
context @ Q5_K_M: runs to its full 32K
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~ Q8_025.8 GB~0.5–0.9 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q5_K_M17.6 GB~6–10 tok/s (slow)
✓ Q4_K_M15.3 GB~7–11 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q3_K_M12.5 GB~9–15 tok/s (usable)
$runlocal install mistral-small:24b
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Mistral Small 3: Runs (tight)
for your own README — links back here

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) · Qwen3 · Llama 3.1 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 4

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modelsharesverdict here
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Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
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Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
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…and 7 more — see the Mistral Small 3 page.

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