Will it run? / Mistral medium 3.5 128B / Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB)

Can the Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) run Mistral medium 3.5 128B?

Won't fit No. Mistral medium 3.5 128B needs about 81.5 GB of memory, and the Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) can give a model about 48 GB. You'd need a machine with more memory, or a smaller model.

–estimated tokens/sec
81.5 GBmemory needed
48 GBavailable to the model
273 GB/smemory bandwidth

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 80 GB. The Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) moves 273 GB/s, so the ceiling is 3.4 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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