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Can the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) run OLMo 2 32B Instruct?

57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 52.1 GB of 384 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 26.9 tok/s.

Best quant
Q4_K_M
Generation speed
26.9 tok/s
Prompt processing
546 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
1.9 s
Largest safe context
4K

Best app to run it on the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX · use the MLX build

  • Runs the MLX build, typically up to 10% faster than GGUF for a model with 32.2B active parameters on Apple silicon.
  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open OLMo 2 32B Instruct in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download OLMo 2 32B Instruct

Recommended for the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB): Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q4_K_M (Q4_K_S) file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/allenai/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_S

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Ai2. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/allenai/OLMo (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/allenai/OLMo

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs well
How well it runs on the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.25.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.12.3 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.3.1 / 15
Match score66.1 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 45.3 GB 384 GB 44.1 tok/s Runs great 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 48.2 GB 384 GB 34.7 tok/s Runs great 50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 52.1 GB 384 GB 26.9 tok/s Runs well 57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (Q4_K_S) (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 55.3 GB 384 GB 22.2 tok/s Runs well 58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (Q5_K_S) (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 58.8 GB 384 GB 18.6 tok/s Runs well 59Good quality (B) · 59 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 66.6 GB 384 GB 13.7 tok/s Runs well 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 96.9 GB 384 GB 6.3 tok/s Slow 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 4K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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