OLMo 2 7B on Apple M3 Max · 36GB

✅ Runs comfortably — OLMo 2 7B @ Q8_0
OLMo 2 7B 7B at Q8_0 needs ~11.7 GB (weights 7.2 GB + KV 4.0 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.1 GB usable (of 36.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~16–25 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 4K
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✓ Q8_011.7 GB~16–25 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q6_K10.1 GB~18–30 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M8.7 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
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OLMo 2 7B: 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 M3 Max: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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