Ministral 3 14B on Apple M2 Max · 64GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Ministral 3 14B @ Q8_0
Ministral 3 14B 14B at Q8_0 needs ~15.3 GB (weights 13.4 GB + KV 1.3 GB + overhead 685 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 45.0 GB usable (of 64.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~13–20 tok/s (usable).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 128K · runs to its full 256K
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✓ Q8_015.3 GB~13–20 tok/s (usable)
✓ Q4_K_M9.4 GB~25–40 tok/s (fast)
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Ministral 3 14B: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M2 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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Architecturally similar

These share Ministral 3 14B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a Apple M2 Max · 64GB too:

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Qwen2.5-Coder 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
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Mistral Small 3 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mistral Nemo 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.2 Vision 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mixtral 8x7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably

…and 7 more — see the Ministral 3 14B page.

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