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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (512GB) run Qwen3 14B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 512.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 14B at FP16 · 29.5 GB · 24–35 tok/s on a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (512GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K5.8 GB74–110 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M7.3 GB65–97 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M9.0 GB57–86 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M10.5 GB52–78 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K12.1 GB47–71 tok/sRuns great
Q8_015.7 GB39–59 tok/sRuns great
FP1629.5 GB24–35 tok/sRuns great

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