Mixtral 8x7B on Apple M2 Pro · 32GB

🐢 CPU-only (slow) — Mixtral 8x7B @ Q4_K_M
Mixtral 8x7B 8x7B (MoE) at Q4_K_M needs ~28.7 GB (weights 26.4 GB + KV 1.0 GB + overhead 1.3 GB @ 8K ctx) of your 18.4 GB usable (of 32.0 GB unified memory) — runs on CPU only. Expect ~2–3 tok/s (slow).
context @ Q4_K_M: runs to 8K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✗ Q8_049.5 GB—
✗ Q5_K_M33.5 GB—
~ Q4_K_M28.7 GB~2–3 tok/s (slow)
~ Q3_K_M23.3 GB~2–3 tok/s (slow)
$runlocal install mixtral:8x7b
runlocal verdict card
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Mixtral 8x7B: CPU-only (slow)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M4 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M2 Pro: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Mistral Small 3 · Qwen3 · Llama 3.1 · Qwen2.5

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Architecturally similar

These share Mixtral 8x7B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a Apple M2 Pro · 32GB too:

modelsharesverdict here
Qwen2.5-Coder 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.2 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd 🐢 CPU-only (slow)
Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mistral Nemo 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.2 Vision 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Phi-4-mini 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably

…and 6 more — see the Mixtral 8x7B page.

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