Mistral on Apple M4

Can I run Mistral 7B v0.3 on an Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB?

Yes. Mistral 7B v0.3 at Q4_K_M uses 5.6 GB of the 96.0 GB available on a Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB, and runs at about 75.0 tokens per second. You can push the context to 32K.

Runs comfortably

5.6 GB of 96.0 GB · 6%
096 GB
Weights 4.1 GB
KV cache 1.0 GB
Runtime overhead 0.5 GB

Mistral 7B v0.3 at Q4_K_M leaves 90.4 GB spare on a Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB. There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.

Generation75.0tok/s
Prompt processing985tok/s
Max context32Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Mistral 7B v0.3 on a Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 13.5 GB 15.0 GB Runs comfortably 32K 25.0
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 7.1 GB 8.6 GB Runs comfortably 32K 45.7
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 7.1 GB 8.6 GB Runs comfortably 32K 45.7
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 6.8 GB 8.3 GB Runs comfortably 32K 48.0
Q6_K 6.56 5.5 GB 7.1 GB Runs comfortably 32K 57.6
Q5_K_M 5.67 4.8 GB 6.3 GB Runs comfortably 32K 65.6
Q5_K_S 5.52 4.7 GB 6.2 GB Runs comfortably 32K 67.2
Q4_K_M 4.85 4.1 GB 5.6 GB Runs comfortably 32K 75.0
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 4.0 GB 5.5 GB Runs comfortably 32K 77.7
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 4.0 GB 5.5 GB Runs comfortably 32K 77.7
MXFP4 4.25 4.0 GB 5.5 GB Runs comfortably 32K 77.7
Q4_K_S 4.58 3.9 GB 5.4 GB Runs comfortably 32K 78.7
Q4_0 4.55 3.9 GB 5.4 GB Runs comfortably 32K 79.2
IQ4_XS 4.25 3.6 GB 5.1 GB Runs comfortably 32K 83.8
Q3_K_M 3.91 3.3 GB 4.9 GB Runs comfortably 32K 89.7
IQ3_M 3.70 3.2 GB 4.7 GB Runs comfortably 32K 93.8
IQ3_XXS 3.06 2.7 GB 4.2 GB Runs comfortably 32K 109
Q2_K 2.63 2.3 GB 3.8 GB Runs comfortably 32K 122
IQ2_XXS 2.06 1.8 GB 3.4 GB Runs comfortably 32K 146
IQ1_M 1.75 1.6 GB 3.1 GB Runs comfortably 32K 163

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