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Nov 6, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek 92GB Pruned Model Requires 128GB Mac, Multilingual Accuracy Only 65.4%

Analysis of DeepSeek's 92GB pruned model shows it requires 128GB Macs due to macOS GPU memory limits, while multilingual top-1 consistency drops to 65.4%, making it a poor default for 96GB Mac users; the article compares model tiers, pruning trade-offs, SSD offloading penalties, and speculative decoding gains.