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Can the Apple M2 Max run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 32B?

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21.0 GB needed of 30 GB usable — headroom for context

~30GB usable · Apple M2 Max · model file 20GB · distill 32B

~11–16 tok/s

computed roofline: 400 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 20.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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