Nomic Embed Text on Apple M4 Pro · 48GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Nomic Embed Text 137M @ F16
Nomic Embed Text 137M at F16 needs ~1.0 GB (weights 261 MB + KV 288 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 33.0 GB usable (of 48.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~250–420 tok/s (very fast).
context @ F16: comfortable to 8K
quantneedsspeed
✓ F161.0 GB~250–420 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q8_0939 MB~330–540 tok/s (very fast)
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Nomic Embed Text: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M4 Pro: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Mixtral 8x7B · Gemma 3

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