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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

140.9 tok/s

TTFT

1374 ms

Safe context

70K

Memory

10.6 GB / 46.1 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom6.9 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well140.9 tok/s1999 ms140K
ChatCRuns well140.9 tok/s750 ms35K
CodingCRuns well140.9 tok/s1374 ms70K
RAGCRuns well140.9 tok/s2499 ms140K
ReasoningCRuns well140.9 tok/s1624 ms70K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB (46.1 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD30
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumD31

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--gemma-2-2b-it-gguf
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