Apple M4 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) × Mistral Nemo 12B
Can the Apple M4 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) run Mistral Nemo 12B?
Yes
Yes. The Apple M4 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) can run Mistral Nemo 12B at up to F16 (needs ~27.3 GB of 96.0 GB usable), at an estimated ~42.9 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 83.06 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 8.3 GB | ✅ | ~53.4 |
| Q4_K_M | 9.8 GB | ✅ | ~42.9 |
| Q5_K_M | 11.1 GB | ✅ | ~36.5 |
| Q6_K | 12.5 GB | ✅ | ~31.5 |
| Q8_0 | 15.5 GB | ✅ | ~24.5 |
| F16 | 27.3 GB | ✅ | ~13.0 |
Fastest hardware for Mistral Nemo 12B
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~150 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~96.2 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~95.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — ~94.1 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — ~91.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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