§01·tested · /gpus/m2-pro
Recipes tested on Apple M2 Pro
17 community-tested setups — recipes and guides whose author ran them on this exact card.
appleapple series16GB unified
- llmintermediate16GB+recipe
Nanbeige4.2-3B on Apple M2 Pro: the context ladder for 16 GB of unified memory
- multimodaladvanced16GB+recipe
Fara1.5-9B on Apple M2 Pro: Browser Computer-Use Agent in 16GB Unified Memory
- multimodaladvanced16GB+recipe
Fara1.5-4B on Apple M2 Pro: Browser Computer-Use Agent in 16GB Unified Memory
- multimodalintermediate6GB+recipe
Bonsai 27B on Apple M2 Pro: a 27B Multimodal Model on 16GB Unified Memory via 1-bit GGUF + Metal
- llmintermediate16GB+recipe
Gemma 4 12B on Apple M2 Pro: Local Private Assistant via llama.cpp / Ollama (16GB)
- llmintermediate16GB+recipe
Phi-4 (14B) on Apple M2 Pro: Local Private Assistant via llama.cpp / Ollama (16GB)
- llmintermediate16GB+recipe
Mistral Nemo 12B on Apple M2 Pro (16GB): Local Private Assistant via llama.cpp / Ollama (Metal)
- llmintermediate12GB+recipe
Ornith 1.0 9B on Apple M2 Pro: Local Agentic Coding in 16GB Unified Memory via llama.cpp Metal + OpenHands
- videoadvanced14GB+recipe
LTX-2.3 on Apple M2 Pro (16 GB): experimental 22B audio-video in unified memory via the MLX --low-ram port
- ttsbeginner2GB+recipe
VoxCPM-0.5B on Apple M2 Pro: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning TTS in Unified Memory (MPS)
- ttsbeginner1GB+recipe
Kokoro TTS on Apple M2 Pro: 82M Text-to-Speech, 54 Voices, Native MLX-Audio
- imagebeginner6GB+recipe
Z-Image Turbo on Apple M2 Pro: 8-step 1024x1024 text-to-image in 16 GB unified memory with mflux
- multimodalbeginner5GB+recipe
Gemma 4 E4B on Apple M2 Pro: local vision-language inference in 16 GB unified memory with MLX-VLM
- llmintermediate13GB+recipe
gpt-oss 20B on Apple M2 Pro: running 20B in 16 GB unified memory with the wired-limit raise
- llmintermediate9GB+recipe
Qwen3-14B on Apple M2 Pro: the strongest LLM that fits a 16 GB unified-memory Mac, via MLX 4-bit
- llmbeginner5GB+recipe
Qwen3-8B on Apple M2 Pro: local 8B chat with MLX 4-bit in 16 GB unified memory
- llmbeginner5GB+recipe
Llama 3.1 8B on Apple M2 Pro: your first local LLM in 16 GB unified memory with MLX