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Home/llava llama 3 8b v1 1/on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB run llava llama 3 8b v1 1?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

114.1 tok/s

TTFT

1696 ms

Safe context

84K

Memory

35.0 GB / 184.3 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom27.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well114.1 tok/s2468 ms163K
ChatCRuns well114.1 tok/s925 ms43K
CodingCRuns well114.1 tok/s1696 ms84K
RAGCRuns well114.1 tok/s3084 ms163K
ReasoningCRuns well114.1 tok/s2005 ms84K

Quantization options

How llava llama 3 8b v1 1 (8B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB (184.3 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
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
8.6 GB
Very HighD30
F16Best for your GPU
16
16.4 GB
MaximumD31

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