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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) run Granite 4.2 30B?

Granite · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 96.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Granite 4.2 30B at Q8_0 · 31.1 GB · 16–23 tok/s on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K10.9 GB36–55 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M14.1 GB30–45 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M17.7 GB25–38 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M20.8 GB22–33 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K24.0 GB20–29 tok/sRuns great
Q8_031.1 GB16–23 tok/sRuns great
FP1658.6 GB9–13 tok/sTight / slow
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