Apple M2 Max meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M2 Max can run trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5 with Q4 quantization. At approximately 50 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 92GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 4GB | 96GB | 49.72 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 7GB | 96GB | 39.08 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 15GB | 96GB | 20.59 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |