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Can I run this LLM?

Can a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) run Qwen3 Coder Next 80B-A3B (MoE)?

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

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3 Coder Next 80B-A3B (MoE) at Q5_K_M · 59.2 GB · 116–174 tok/s on a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q2_K29.2 GB137–206 tok/sRuns great
Q3_K_M38.3 GB130–195 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M49.3 GB122–183 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M59.2 GB116–174 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K65.8 GB112–168 tok/sTight / slow
Q8_084.8 GB102–153 tok/sWon't fit
FP16159.5 GB76–114 tok/sWon't fit

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