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Home/gemma 2b/on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 64GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M4 Pro 64GB run gemma 2b?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

172.3 tok/s

TTFT

1124 ms

Safe context

73K

Memory

10.1 GB / 46.1 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom6.9 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well172.3 tok/s1634 ms146K
ChatCRuns well172.3 tok/s613 ms36K
CodingCRuns well172.3 tok/s1124 ms73K
RAGCRuns well172.3 tok/s2043 ms146K
ReasoningCRuns well172.3 tok/s1328 ms73K

Quantization options

How gemma 2b (2B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 64GB (46.1 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 HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
4.1 GB
MaximumD31

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