SmolLM2 on Apple M4 Max · 128GB

✅ Runs comfortably — SmolLM2 1.7B @ FP16
SmolLM2 1.7B at FP16 needs ~5.2 GB (weights 3.2 GB + KV 1.5 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 93.0 GB usable (of 128 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~45–80 tok/s (very fast).
context @ FP16: comfortable to 8K
quantneedsspeed
✓ FP165.2 GB~45–80 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q8_03.7 GB~70–120 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M3.0 GB~90–150 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install smollm2:1.7b
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SmolLM2: 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 M4 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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