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Consumer-grade M2/M3 MacBooks can run quantized models with parameter counts up to 70B locally at relatively low latency.
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UnverifiedSmall models (1B–7B parameters) used for text completion tasks can run smoothly on Macs with 8 GB or more of unified memory, with inference latency kept within a few hundred milliseconds.71% similarUnverifiedA developer reproduced the setup on a Mac M2 Max using a 0.6B draft model paired with an 8B target model, and the result was actually slower because the draft model was only about 3.5x faster.71% similarUnverifiedBased on the MLX framework, top-configured Mac models can achieve a generation speed of approximately 20 tokens/second when running the Llama-3-70B quantized model.70% similarVerifiedA Mac Studio M4 Ultra equipped with 192 GB of unified memory can theoretically run complete 70B or even larger parameter models.68% similarUnverifiedThe M2 Max (96 GB unified memory) can theoretically run quantized models at the 70B level smoothly.68% similar
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