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M2 24GB

Released 2022-06-24 · Street $1,500
vram
24 GB
unified mem
bandwidth
100
GB/s
models fit
13
top · Q6_K
power
20 W
low

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
M2 24GB
Apple · Apple Silicon · M2
vram
24 GB unified
bandwidth
100 GB/s
tdp
20 W
released
2022-06-24
msrp
$1,899
street
~$1,500
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
Q6_K · GGUF · 21.8 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram21.8 / 24 GB
speed5 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. Q6_Kwastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
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Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bQ6_K21.8 GB550.6Ok
02Qwen2.5 Coder 32BQ5_K_M21.5 GB548.8Ok
03Gemma 2 27BQ6_K21.8 GB546.2Ok
04Qwen3 32BQ5_K_M21.5 GB540.0Ok
05Gemma 2 9BFP1619.4 GB535.0Great
06Gemma 3 12BQ8_013.1 GB831.3Great
07deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bQ5_K_M21.5 GB533.3Ok
08Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB1115.1Great
09Mixtral 8x7B v0.1Q2_K18.9 GB513.3Great
10Gemma 2 2bFP164.7 GB210.0Great
Showing 10 of 13 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+RTX 5090
32 GB · ~$2,399 · +$899 over M2 24GB
Unlocks +3 models not in current rank
See RTX 5090
Bigger tier
+A6000 Pro
48 GB · ~$4,200 · +$2,700 over M2 24GB
Unlocks +4 models not in current rank
See A6000 Pro
Premium tier
+RTX 6000 Ada
48 GB · ~$7,000 · +$5,500 over M2 24GB
Unlocks +4 models not in current rank
See RTX 6000 Ada

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RTX 5070
12 GB · NVIDIA · 60% cheaper
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