Will it run? / Llama 3.2 Vision 11B / Mac mini M6 (32GB)

Can the Mac mini M6 (32GB) run Llama 3.2 Vision 11B?

Comfortable Yes, at about 17 tokens/sec (estimated). That reads at a comfortable pace.

17estimated tokens/sec
9.3 GBmemory needed
21.4 GBavailable to the model
170 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run llama3.2-vision:11b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 7.8 GB. The Mac mini M6 (32GB) moves 170 GB/s, so the ceiling is 22 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 80%, calibrated against a measured Mac run. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.

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