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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB) run Qwen3.6 27B?

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

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.6 27B at Q8_0 · 28.6 GB · 17–26 tok/s on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K11.9 GB36–54 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M13.6 GB32–49 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M16.8 GB27–41 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M19.5 GB24–36 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K22.5 GB21–32 tok/sRuns great
Q8_028.6 GB17–26 tok/sRuns great
FP1653.8 GB10–14 tok/sTight / slow
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