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Can the Apple M2 Ultra run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 70B?

FULL

44.2 GB needed of 62 GB usable — headroom for context

~62GB usable · Apple M2 Ultra · model file 43GB · distill 70B

~10–15 tok/s

computed roofline: 800 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 43.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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