Can I Run Qwen 2.5 Family on Apple M3 Max?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2024年11月12日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~21 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct at Q4_K_M (43 GB, ~9 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

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在亚马逊查看价格 — Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max

Apple M3 Max Specs

VRAM	64 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth	400 GB/s

Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct on the Apple M3 Max: VRAM by quantization

Quant	VRAM needed	Fits 64 GB?	Max context
F16	146.1 GB	✗ No	—
Q8_0	78.6 GB	✗ No	—
Q6_K	61.2 GB	✓ Yes	8K
Q5_K_M	53.2 GB	✓ Yes	32K
Q4_K_M	45.6 GB	✓ Yes	32K
Q3_K_M	32.8 GB	✓ Yes	64K
Q2_K	25.8 GB	✓ Yes	64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 64 GB of unified memory. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 2.5 Family Sizes That Fit the Apple M3 Max

Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 43 GB · ~9 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B	Q4_K_M · 19.5 GB · ~21 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 9.5 GB · ~42 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct	Q4_K_M · 4.8 GB · ~83 tok/s (est.)

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