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Home/gemma 2 2b it/on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB run gemma 2 2b it?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

356.6 tok/s

TTFT

543 ms

Safe context

94K

Memory

31.3 GB / 184.3 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom27.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well356.6 tok/s790 ms189K
ChatCRuns well356.6 tok/s350 ms47K
CodingCRuns well356.6 tok/s543 ms94K
RAGCRuns well356.6 tok/s987 ms189K
ReasoningCRuns well356.6 tok/s642 ms94K

Quantization options

How gemma 2 2b it (2B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB (184.3 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
MaximumD30

Get started

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