TinyLlama on Apple M3 Max · 36GB

✅ Runs comfortably — TinyLlama 1.1B @ FP16
TinyLlama 1.1B at FP16 needs ~2.7 GB (weights 2.0 GB + KV 176 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.1 GB usable (of 36.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~85–140 tok/s (very fast).
context @ FP16: comfortable to 2K
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✓ FP162.7 GB~85–140 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q8_01.8 GB~160–270 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M1.3 GB~280–460 tok/s (very fast)
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TinyLlama: 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) · Mistral Small 3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 4

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