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Can the Apple M3 Pro run llava 13B?

FULL

11.1 GB needed of 16 GB usable — headroom for context

~16GB usable · Apple M3 Pro · model file 8.0GB · 13B

~10–15 tok/s

computed roofline: 150 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 8.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run llava 13B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llava 13B fully ($135)

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