Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B on Apple M3 Ultra (96 GB)

Can the Apple M3 Ultra (96 GB) run Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 14.8 GB of 72.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 51.0 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 51.0 tok/s
Prompt processing: 4,424 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 256K

Best app to run it on the Apple M3 Ultra (96 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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Open Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

Want an agent? Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B

Ollama

Not in the Ollama library yet. Mainline llama.cpp (which Ollama and LM Studio build on) does not support the Dory architecture yet, so NVIDIA’s GGUF needs a llama.cpp build from PR #30306. vLLM has merged support (PR #60149).

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from NVIDIA, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B-BF16 (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the Apple M3 Ultra (96 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	30.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	4.7 / 15
Match score	75.3 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Apple M3 Ultra (96 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	8.4 GB	72.0 GB	357 tok/s	Runs great	47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	8.8 GB	72.0 GB	281 tok/s	Runs great	57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	9.3 GB	72.0 GB	218 tok/s	Runs great	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	9.7 GB	72.0 GB	180 tok/s	Runs great	65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	10.1 GB	72.0 GB	151 tok/s	Runs great	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	11.0 GB	72.0 GB	111 tok/s	Runs great	68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	14.8 GB	72.0 GB	51.0 tok/s	Runs great	68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q8_0 · 42.7 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 48.6 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER F16 · 53.3 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti F16 · 64.8 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 F16 · 69.5 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 54.7 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B need on the M3 Ultra 96GB?

At F16 it needs about 14.8 GB. The M3 Ultra 96GB has 72.0 GB usable.

How fast is Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B on the M3 Ultra 96GB?

About 51.0 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B should I use on the M3 Ultra 96GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.