@antirez: I didn't expect DeepSeek v4 PRO (not Flash) to run well on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of RAM. This is 2 bit qua…
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Antirez reports that DeepSeek v4 PRO runs well on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB RAM using 2-bit quantization, achieving 130 t/s prefill and 13 t/s generation.
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I didn’t expect DeepSeek v4 PRO (not Flash) to run well on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of RAM. This is 2 bit quantized with the same DwarfStar recipe used for Flash. 433GB GGUF file. 130 t/s prefill, 13 t/s generation. Prefill in the video is low because small prompt. https://t.co/ciyx0XCSh7
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