Can I Run Llama 3.2 Family on Apple M1 Ultra?

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated August 15, 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~74.4 GB of headroom running Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M (53.613 GB, ~8 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

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Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
128 GB VRAM · 60 W board power
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Apple M1 Ultra Specs

VRAM128 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth800 GB/s

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct on the Apple M1 Ultra: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 128 GB?Max context
F16180.1 GB✗ No
Q8_096.8 GB✓ Yes64K
Q6_K75.3 GB✓ Yes64K
Q5_K_M65.4 GB✓ Yes64K
Q4_K_M56.1 GB✓ Yes64K
Q3_K_M40.3 GB✓ Yes64K
Q2_K31.7 GB✓ Yes64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 128 GB of unified memory. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Llama 3.2 Family Sizes That Fit the Apple M1 Ultra

Llama 3.2 90B Vision InstructQ4_K_M · 53.613 GB · ~8 tok/s (est.)
Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructQ4_K_M · 6.39975 GB · ~52 tok/s (est.)
Llama 3.2 3B InstructQ4_K_M · 1.9380375 GB · ~118 tok/s (est.)
Llama 3.2 1B InstructQ4_K_M · 0.74865 GB · ~199 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Will Llama 3.2 Family run on the Apple M1 Ultra?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~74.4 GB of headroom running Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M (53.613 GB, ~8 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

Which Llama 3.2 Family variant fits best on the Apple M1 Ultra?

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (53.613 GB), estimated ~8 tokens/sec, up to 64K context.

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