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Can I run pplx-decider 27B (Perplexity, decision) locally?

Perplexity · 27B parameters · chat, vision.

Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 17 GB (pplx-decider:27b).

Yes on 64 machines in this list. The smallest is RTX 3060 12GB: Q4_K_M, about 19.3 GB, roughly 5 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run pplx-decider:27b

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

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~5 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 3080 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~5 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~5 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~5 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~6 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~9 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~9 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~9 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~8 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBpartial offload (slower)~8 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M1 Max (24c GPU) 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M1 Max (32c GPU) 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Max (30c GPU) 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Max (38c GPU) 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Max (30c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~63 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~29 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M1 Max (32c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Max (30c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Max (38c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Ultra 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Pro 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~13 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~29 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Max (38c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Max (30c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (60c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Ultra 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M3 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~29 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBMLXMLX 4bit17.6 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sexo # on every Mac (brew install --cask exo); load mlx-community/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b-4bit with Tensor sharding + RDMA
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (60c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
2x DGX Spark 128GBvLLMOfficial weights54.5 GBfits in fast memory~5 tok/svllm serve perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b --tensor-parallel-size 2 --distributed-executor-backend ray --max-model-len 8192
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBMLXMLX 4bit17.6 GBfits in fast memory~70 tok/sexo # on every Mac (brew install --cask exo); load mlx-community/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b-4bit with Tensor sharding + RDMA
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBMLXMLX 4bit17.6 GBfits in fast memory~88 tok/sexo # on every Mac (brew install --cask exo); load mlx-community/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b-4bit with Tensor sharding + RDMA
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ4_K_M19.3 GBfits in fast memory~39 tok/sollama run pplx-decider:27b
4x DGX Spark 128GBvLLMOfficial weights54.5 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/svllm serve perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b --tensor-parallel-size 4 --distributed-executor-backend ray --max-model-len 8192
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBMLXMLX 4bit17.6 GBfits in fast memory~138 tok/sexo # on every Mac (brew install --cask exo); load mlx-community/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b-4bit with Tensor sharding + RDMA

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 2026-10-19.

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