Can I Run Qwen 2.5 VL on Apple M2 Max?

Superseded model. Qwen 2.5 VL has been superseded by Qwen 3. This page is kept for reference; the newer family is a better starting point. View Qwen 3 →

作者: Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新: 2026年7月12日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~51.7 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct at Q4_K_M (44.315250000000006 GB, ~5 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

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Apple M2 Max Specs

VRAM96 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth400 GB/s

Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct on the Apple M2 Max: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 96 GB?Max context
F16148.9 GB✗ No
Q8_080.1 GB✓ Yes32K
Q6_K62.3 GB✓ Yes64K
Q5_K_M54.2 GB✓ Yes64K
Q4_K_M46.5 GB✓ Yes64K
Q3_K_M33.4 GB✓ Yes64K
Q2_K26.3 GB✓ Yes64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 96 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 VL Sizes That Fit the Apple M2 Max

Qwen 2.5 VL 72B InstructQ4_K_M · 44.315250000000006 GB · ~5 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B InstructQ4_K_M · 5.005087499999999 GB · ~37 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Can I run Qwen 2.5 VL on the Apple M2 Max?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~51.7 GB of headroom running Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct at Q4_K_M (44.315250000000006 GB, ~5 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 64K context.

What's the best Qwen 2.5 VL size for the Apple M2 Max?

Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct at Q4_K_M quantization (44.315250000000006 GB), estimated ~5 tokens/sec, up to 64K context.

Every Qwen 2.5 VL size on the Apple M2 Max

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct44.3 GBRuns~5 tok/s
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct5.0 GBRuns~37 tok/s

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