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Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified): Does It Fit, How Fast, What It Costs

Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) at AWQ 4-bit needs 77.6 GB for its weights and 92.6 GB in total at 8K context with 8 concurrent users. That means it fits on a single Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified). Every figure is computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.

Fits?
Yes, 1 GPU
92.6 GB needed / 192 GB available
Decode speed
21.33
tok/s per stream
Aggregate
173.1
tok/s @ 8 concurrent
Cost / 1M tokens
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1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified) · quote required
What changes as you add Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified)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 GB92.6 GB21.33173.147.41 s—✓
2× Mac384 GB92.6 GB36.27692.323.72 s—✓
4× Mac768 GB92.6 GB72.53276911.88 s—✓
8× Mac1536 GB92.6 GB145.1110775.95 s—✓
Concurrency vs context length
On 1× Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified) at AWQ 4-bit. KV cache scales linearly with context, so this is the number of users your GPUs can actually serve.
ContextConcurrent usersKV per requestFits?
4K121962.1 MB✓ fits
8K601.88 GB✓ fits
33K157.52 GB✓ fits
66K715.03 GB✓ fits
131K330.06 GB✓ fits
Other GPUs that run Mixtral 8x22B (MoE)
Same workload, same quantization — ranked by value (tokens per dollar-hour).
GPUGPUsAggregate tok/sCost / 1M tok
RTX 5090 32GB4×7799$0.0712
A100 80GB SXM42×2176$0.3064
H100 SXM5 80GB2×3645$0.3811
AMD MI300X 192GB1×1696$0.4095
L40S 48GB2×940.0$0.4137
AMD MI325X 288GB1×1920$0.5064
Frequently asked questions

Can Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) run on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified)?

Yes. Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) at AWQ 4-bit needs 92.6 GB including the KV cache, and Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified) has 192 GB — so it fits on a single GPU.

How fast is Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified)?

21.33 tokens/sec per stream and 173.1 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 47.41 s, and inter-token latency is 46.9 ms.

What does Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified) cost per million tokens?

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

How much VRAM does Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) need on Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified)?

77.6 GB for the weights at AWQ 4-bit, plus 15.0 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 92.6 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.

Is Mac M2 Ultra (192GB unified) the right choice for Mixtral 8x22B (MoE)?

It works. Compare — per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 8× RTX 4080 16GB at $0.0534, and the fastest is 4× Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) at 87040 tok/s.

Adjust the workload yourself

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

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