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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

83.2 tok/s

TTFT

2326 ms

Safe context

34K

Memory

5.4 GB / 11.5 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.7 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well83.2 tok/s3383 ms69K
ChatCRuns well83.2 tok/s1269 ms17K
CodingCRuns well83.2 tok/s2326 ms34K
RAGCRuns well83.2 tok/s4229 ms69K
ReasoningCRuns well83.2 tok/s2749 ms34K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB (11.5 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.8 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.0 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.1 GB
MediumD32
Q4_K_M
4
1.2 GB
MediumD32
Q5_K_M
5
1.4 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
1.6 GB
HighD32
Q8_0
8
2.1 GB
Very HighD33
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumD37

Get started

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