Phi-3.5-mini on Apple M4 Pro · 48GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B @ Q8_0
Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B at Q8_0 needs ~7.3 GB (weights 3.8 GB + KV 3.0 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 33.0 GB usable (of 48.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~20–35 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K · runs to 64K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✓ Q8_07.3 GB~20–35 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q5_K_M6.0 GB~25–40 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M5.7 GB~25–45 tok/s (fast)
$runlocal install phi3.5:3.8b
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Phi-3.5-mini: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M4 Pro: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Mixtral 8x7B · Gemma 3

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