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Mistral 7B v0.3 on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB): Does It Fit, How Fast, What It Costs

Mistral 7B v0.3 at FP16 needs 14.5 GB for its weights and 23.1 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
23.1 GB needed / 192 GB available
Decode speed
35.91
tok/s per stream
Aggregate
430.9
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 GB23.1 GB35.91430.98.84 s—✓
2× Mac384 GB23.1 GB61.0514654.44 s—✓
4× Mac768 GB23.1 GB122.158612.23 s—✓
8× Mac1536 GB23.1 GB244.2234431.13 s—✓
Concurrency vs context length
On 1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) at FP16. KV cache scales linearly with context, so this is the number of users your GPUs can actually serve.
ContextConcurrent usersKV per requestFits?
4K330549.8 MB✓ fits
8K1651.07 GB✓ fits
33K414.29 GB✓ fits
66K208.59 GB✓ fits
131K1017.18 GB✓ fits
Other GPUs that run Mistral 7B v0.3
Same workload, same quantization — ranked by value (tokens per dollar-hour).
GPUGPUsAggregate tok/sCost / 1M tok
RTX 3090 24GB1×504.2$0.1377
RTX 5090 32GB1×965.3$0.1439
RTX 4090 24GB1×543.0$0.2046
AMD MI300X 192GB1×2855$0.2432
V100 SXM2 32GB1×484.8$0.2865
A100 40GB SXM41×834.9$0.2994
Frequently asked questions

Can Mistral 7B v0.3 run on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

Yes. Mistral 7B v0.3 at FP16 needs 23.1 GB including the KV cache, and Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) has 192 GB — so it fits on a single GPU.

How fast is Mistral 7B v0.3 on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

35.91 tokens/sec per stream and 430.9 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 8.84 s, and inter-token latency is 27.8 ms.

What does Mistral 7B v0.3 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 Mistral 7B v0.3 need on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB)?

14.5 GB for the weights at FP16, plus 8.6 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 23.1 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.

Is Mac M2 Ultra (192GB) the right choice for Mistral 7B v0.3?

It works. Compare — per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 4× RTX 3080 10GB at $0.0399, and the fastest is 1× Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) at 10773 tok/s.

Adjust the workload yourself

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

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