Apple M2 Ultra meets the minimum VRAM requirement for Q4 inference of moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct. Review the quantization breakdown below to see how higher precision settings impact VRAM and throughput.
Apple M2 Ultra can run moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct with Q4 quantization. At approximately 40 tokens/second, you can expect Moderate speed - useful for batch processing.
You have 167GB headroom, which is sufficient for system overhead and smooth operation.
| Quantization | VRAM needed | VRAM available | Estimated speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 | 25GB | 192GB | 40.15 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| Q8 | 50GB | 192GB | 27.44 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |
| FP16 | 101GB | 192GB | 15.30 tok/s | ✅ Fits comfortably |