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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on MacBook Pro M2 Max 32GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M2 Max 32GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

109.6 tok/s

TTFT

1767 ms

Safe context

48K

Memory

7.6 GB / 23.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom3.5 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well109.6 tok/s2570 ms95K
ChatCRuns well109.6 tok/s964 ms24K
CodingCRuns well109.6 tok/s1767 ms48K
RAGCRuns well109.6 tok/s3213 ms95K
ReasoningCRuns well109.6 tok/s2088 ms48K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M2 Max 32GB (23.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD31
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD31
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD32
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD32
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD32
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD35

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for MacBook Pro M2 Max 32GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct