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Home/TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0/on Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB run TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

440.0 tok/s

TTFT

440 ms

Safe context

89K

Memory

16.5 GB / 92.2 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.7 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom13.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well440.0 tok/s640 ms179K
ChatCRuns well440.0 tok/s350 ms45K
CodingCRuns well440.0 tok/s440 ms89K
RAGCRuns well440.0 tok/s800 ms179K
ReasoningCRuns well440.0 tok/s520 ms89K

Quantization options

How TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0 (1.100000023841858B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB (92.2 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.4 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
0.5 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
0.6 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
0.7 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
0.8 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
0.9 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
1.2 GB
Very HighD30
F16Best for your GPU
16
2.3 GB
MaximumD30

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