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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (512GB) run Qwen3.5 4B?

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

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.5 4B at FP16 · 8.4 GB · 62–93 tok/s on a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (512GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K1.9 GB120–180 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M2.3 GB114–171 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M2.7 GB108–161 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M3.1 GB102–153 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K3.5 GB98–146 tok/sRuns great
Q8_04.5 GB88–132 tok/sRuns great
FP168.4 GB62–93 tok/sRuns great

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