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Can I run Code Llama 7B locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q5_K_M 4.8 GB (codellama:7b-instruct-q5_K_M); Q8_0 7.2 GB (codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0); Q4_0 3.8 GB (codellama:7b); Q4_K_M 4.1 GB (codellama:7b-instruct-q4_K_M).

Yes on 58 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 8GB: Q4_K_M, about 5 GB, roughly 13 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q4_K_M

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

Open Code Llama 7B in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M1 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M5 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q4_K_M
M2 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M5 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q4_K_M
M3 8GBOllamaQ4_K_M5 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q4_K_M
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaQ5_K_M5.7 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q5_K_M
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaQ5_K_M5.7 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q5_K_M
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaQ5_K_M5.7 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q5_K_M
RX 7600 8GBOllamaQ5_K_M5.7 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q5_K_M
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M1 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~8 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M2 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M3 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~30 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~24 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~80 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~52 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M2 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M3 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~11 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~78 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~84 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~80 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 32GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~17 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~51 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~149 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~30 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~61 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~68 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M1 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Max 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~61 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~61 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~68 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~91 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~133 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~61 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~61 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~68 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~89 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~91 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~133 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~133 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBvLLMOfficial weights14.4 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/svllm serve meta-llama/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf --tensor-parallel-size 2 --distributed-executor-backend ray --max-model-len 8192
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~91 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBvLLMOfficial weights14.4 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/svllm serve meta-llama/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf --tensor-parallel-size 4 --distributed-executor-backend ray --max-model-len 8192

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 2026-10-16.

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