Will it run? / mixtral 8X7B / Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB)

Can the Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) run mixtral 8X7B?

Comfortable Yes, at about 18 tokens/sec (estimated). That reads at a comfortable pace.

18estimated tokens/sec
27.5 GBmemory needed
48 GBavailable to the model
273 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run mixtral:8x7b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the active part of the model from memory once: 7.2 GB. The Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) moves 273 GB/s, so the ceiling is 38 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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