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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

61.4 tok/s

TTFT

3154 ms

Safe context

31K

Memory

5.9 GB / 11.5 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.7 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well61.4 tok/s4587 ms61K
ChatCRuns well61.4 tok/s1720 ms16K
CodingCRuns well61.4 tok/s3154 ms31K
RAGCRuns well61.4 tok/s5734 ms61K
ReasoningCRuns well61.4 tok/s3727 ms31K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB (11.5 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD32
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD33
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD34
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD34
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD35
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumC41

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
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