Can I run LLaVA?

Popular open vision-language model for image Q&A and captioning.

visionchat · sizes: 7B, 13B · Apache-2.0

What runs it

machinebest fitverdictspeed
Apple M1 · 8GB 13B Q4_K_M ❌ Won't fit
Apple M1 Pro · 16GB 13B Q4_K_M 🐢 CPU-only (slow) 0.9–2 tok/s
Apple M2 · 16GB 13B Q4_K_M 🐢 CPU-only (slow) 0.5–0.8 tok/s
Apple M3 Pro · 18GB 7B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 10–16 tok/s
Apple M2 Pro · 32GB 13B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 7–11 tok/s
Apple M4 Pro · 48GB 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 7–12 tok/s
Apple M3 Max · 36GB 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 9–14 tok/s
Apple M2 Max · 64GB 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 9–15 tok/s
Apple M4 Max · 128GB 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 11–19 tok/s
Apple M2 Ultra · 192GB 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 12–20 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM 7B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 16–25 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 · 12GB VRAM 7B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 · 24GB VRAM 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM 13B Q4_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 25–45 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 · 32GB VRAM 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 35–60 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM 13B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 18–30 tok/s

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Architectural kin

2 models share LLaVA's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so a rig that fits one tends to fit its same-size kin.

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