Apple M2 Ultra meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M2 Ultra can run deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B with Q4 quantization. At approximately 35 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 176GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 16GB | 192GB | 35.10 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 33GB | 192GB | 25.06 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 66GB | 192GB | 14.56 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |