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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)?

Nemotron · openmdw-1.1 · estimated for a 96.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) at Q8_0 · 35.0 GB · 86–129 tok/s on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K18.9 GB111–167 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M19.8 GB109–164 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M25.5 GB99–149 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M27.0 GB97–145 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K34.3 GB87–130 tok/sRuns great
Q8_035.0 GB86–129 tok/sRuns great
FP1665.9 GB60–90 tok/sTight / slow
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