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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) run Qwen3.5 4B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 96.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 4B at FP16 · 8.4 GB · 45–68 tok/s on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q3_K_M2.3 GB91–137 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M2.7 GB85–128 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M3.1 GB80–120 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K3.5 GB76–114 tok/sRuns great
Q8_04.5 GB67–101 tok/sRuns great
FP168.4 GB45–68 tok/sRuns great

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