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Can a Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB run Llama 3.2 Vision 11B?

Yes. Llama 3.2 Vision 11B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB at Q8_0 (13.5 GB needed, 36.0 GB usable), about 36 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB · Model: Llama 3.2 Vision 11B

Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB has 48 GB of unified memory and 546 GB/s of memory bandwidth. M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB has the same memory and bandwidth, so the fit numbers match; this page is Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 36.0 GB. Llama 3.2 Vision 11B (10.7B, Meta) at Q8_0 is a 12 GB download and needs 13.5 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size12 GB
Memory needed13.5 GB
Usable fast memory36.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~36 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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