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Home/Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct/on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB run Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

70.5 tok/s

TTFT

2747 ms

Safe context

70K

Memory

21.2 GB / 92.2 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom13.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well70.5 tok/s3995 ms132K
ChatCRuns well70.5 tok/s1498 ms36K
CodingCRuns well70.5 tok/s2747 ms70K
RAGCRuns well70.5 tok/s4994 ms132K
ReasoningCRuns well70.5 tok/s3246 ms70K

Quantization options

How Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct (8B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB (92.2 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
MediumD31
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD31
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighD31
Q8_0
8
8.6 GB
Very HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
16.4 GB
MaximumD33

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