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Llama 3.3 70B on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB): Does It Fit, How Fast, What It Costs

Llama 3.3 70B at FP8 (E4M3) needs 70.6 GB for its weights and 92.1 GB in total at 8K context with 8 concurrent users. That means it fits on a single Mac M2 Ultra (192GB). Every figure is computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.

Fits?
Yes, 1 GPU
92.1 GB needed / 192 GB available
Decode speed
11.05
tok/s per stream
Aggregate
95.61
tok/s @ 8 concurrent
Cost / 1M tokens
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1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) · quote required
What changes as you add Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)s
Tensor-parallel degree vs VRAM, throughput, and cost. Cost scales linearly with GPU count; decode throughput scales near-linearly too, so cost per token stays roughly flat.
GPUsTotal VRAMVRAM neededDecode tok/sAggregate tok/sTTFTCost / 1M tokFits?
1× Mac192 GB92.1 GB11.0595.6185.80 s—✓
2× Mac384 GB92.1 GB18.78382.442.92 s—✓
4× Mac768 GB92.1 GB37.56153021.48 s—✓
8× Mac1536 GB92.1 GB75.13611910.75 s—✓
Concurrency vs context length
On 1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) at FP8 (E4M3). KV cache scales linearly with context, so this is the number of users your GPUs can actually serve.
ContextConcurrent usersKV per requestFits?
4K901.34 GB✓ fits
8K452.68 GB✓ fits
33K1110.74 GB✓ fits
66K521.47 GB✓ fits
131K242.95 GB✓ fits
Other GPUs that run Llama 3.3 70B
Same workload, same quantization — ranked by value (tokens per dollar-hour).
GPUGPUsAggregate tok/sCost / 1M tok
RTX 5090 32GB4×4039$0.1376
A100 80GB SXM42×1127$0.5916
H100 SXM5 80GB2×1888$0.7358
AMD MI300X 192GB1×878.3$0.7906
L40S 48GB2×486.8$0.7988
AMD MI325X 288GB1×994.3$0.9778
Frequently asked questions

Can Llama 3.3 70B run on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

Yes. Llama 3.3 70B at FP8 (E4M3) needs 92.1 GB including the KV cache, and Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) has 192 GB — so it fits on a single GPU.

How fast is Llama 3.3 70B on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

11.05 tokens/sec per stream and 95.61 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 85.80 s, and inter-token latency is 90.5 ms.

What does Llama 3.3 70B on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) cost per million tokens?

— per 1M output tokens at 1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB). That is the marginal hardware cost — add idle capacity, ops, and egress for the real figure.

How much VRAM does Llama 3.3 70B need on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

70.6 GB for the weights at FP8 (E4M3), plus 21.5 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 92.1 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.

Is Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) the right choice for Llama 3.3 70B?

It works. Compare — per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 8× RTX 4080 16GB at $0.1031, and the fastest is 4× Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) at 45076 tok/s.

Adjust the workload yourself

Same formulas, your context length, concurrency, and quantisation.

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