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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

162.4 tok/s

TTFT

1192 ms

Safe context

82K

Memory

18.0 GB / 92.2 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom13.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well162.4 tok/s1734 ms163K
ChatCRuns well162.4 tok/s650 ms41K
CodingCRuns well162.4 tok/s1192 ms82K
RAGCRuns well162.4 tok/s2167 ms163K
ReasoningCRuns well162.4 tok/s1409 ms82K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB (92.2 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD30
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD31

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf
See all results for MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GBSee all hardware for Llama 3.2 3B Instruct