Local AI hardware: M5 Ultra

Hardware profile
Hardware Memory Bandwidth Computing power vLLM
M5 UltraApple Mac Studio M5 Ultra 80-core GPU configuration with 256 GB unified 256 GBUnified RAM 1200 GB/s ~540 TOPS no
Compatible models Estimated speeds, not benchmark results: calculated from memory bandwidth and model size. Real results can differ significantly because there is no precise formula for deriving LLM generation speed from hardware specifications alone.
Model Size Approx. Q4 memory Estimated generation
Ornith 1.5 397BMoE 397Bactive 17B 238.2 GB 46 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.5 397BMoE 397Bactive 17B 238.2 GB 46 tok/s4-bit quantization
GLM 5.3 FlashMoE 320Bactive 18B 192 GB 43 tok/s4-bit quantization
MiMo V2.5MoE 310Bactive 15B 186 GB 51 tok/s4-bit quantization
Hy3MoE 295Bactive 21B 177 GB 37 tok/s4-bit quantization
DeepSeek V4 FlashMoE 284Bactive 13B 170.4 GB 58 tok/s4-bit quantization
Inkling SmallMoE 276Bactive 12B 165.6 GB 63 tok/s4-bit quantization
Solar Open 2MoE 250Bactive 15B 150 GB 51 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 235BMoE 235Bactive 22B 141 GB 36 tok/s4-bit quantization
Laguna M.1MoE 225Bactive 23B 135 GB 34 tok/s4-bit quantization
Command A+MoE 218Bactive 25B 130.8 GB 31 tok/s4-bit quantization
Step 3.7 FlashMoE 198Bactive 11B 118.8 GB 68 tok/s4-bit quantization
Mistral Medium 3.5Dense 128B 76.8 GB 8 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.8 Flash NextMoE 125Bactive 6B 75 GB 115 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ling 3.0 Flash VLMoE 124Bactive 5.5B 74.4 GB 124 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ling 3.0 FlashMoE 124Bactive 5.1B 74.4 GB 132 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.5 122BMoE 122Bactive 10B 73.2 GB 74 tok/s4-bit quantization
Nemotron 3 SuperMoE 120Bactive 12B 72 GB 63 tok/s4-bit quantization
Mistral Small 4MoE 119Bactive 6.5B 71.4 GB 108 tok/s4-bit quantization
Laguna S 2.1MoE 118Bactive 8B 70.8 GB 90 tok/s4-bit quantization
GPT-OSS 120BMoE 116.8Bactive 5.1B 70.1 GB 132 tok/s4-bit quantization
Sarvam 105BMoE 105Bactive 10.3B 63 GB 72 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 Coder Next 80BMoE 80Bactive 3B 48 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ornith 1.0 35BMoE 35Bactive 3B 21 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ornith 1.5 35BMoE 35Bactive 3B 21 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.6 35BMoE 35Bactive 3B 21 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Laguna XS 2.1MoE 33Bactive 3B 19.8 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 2.5 32BDense 32.5B 19.5 GB 33 tok/s4-bit quantization
Gemma 4 31BDense 31B 18.6 GB 34 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 Coder 30BMoE 30.5Bactive 3.3B 18.3 GB 184 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.1 30BDense 30B 18 GB 35 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.2 30BDense 30B 18 GB 35 tok/s4-bit quantization
Muse GlimmerDense 30B 18 GB 35 tok/s4-bit quantization
GLM 4.7 FlashMoE 30Bactive 3B 18 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Nemotron 3.5 LightningMoE 30Bactive 3B 18 GB 197 tok/s4-bit quantization
Fara 1.5 27BDense 27B 16.2 GB 39 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.6 27BDense 27B 16.2 GB 39 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.8 27BDense 27B 16.2 GB 39 tok/s4-bit quantization
Gemma 4 26BMoE 26Bactive 4B 15.6 GB 159 tok/s4-bit quantization
GPT-OSS 20BMoE 20.9Bactive 3.6B 12.5 GB 172 tok/s4-bit quantization
Instella-MoE 16B ThinkMoE 16Bactive 2.8B 9.6 GB 206 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 14BDense 14B 8.4 GB 74 tok/s4-bit quantization
Gemma 3 12BDense 12B 7.2 GB 85 tok/s4-bit quantization
Gemma 4 12BDense 12B 7.2 GB 85 tok/s4-bit quantization
Fara 1.5 9BDense 9B 5.4 GB 111 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ornith 1.0 9BDense 9B 5.4 GB 111 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ornith 1.5 9BDense 9B 5.4 GB 111 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.5 9BDense 9B 5.4 GB 111 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwythos 9BDense 9B 5.4 GB 111 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.1 8BDense 8B 4.8 GB 124 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.2 8BDense 8B 4.8 GB 124 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 8BDense 8B 4.8 GB 124 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ling 3.0 TinyMoE 7.9Bactive 1.3B 4.7 GB 328 tok/s4-bit quantization
Fara 1.5 4BDense 4B 2.4 GB 227 tok/s4-bit quantization
Gemma 3 4BDense 4B 2.4 GB 227 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3 4B Instruct 2507Dense 4B 2.4 GB 227 tok/s4-bit quantization
Qwen 3.5 4BDense 4B 2.4 GB 227 tok/s4-bit quantization
Spark X2.5 4BDense 4B 2.4 GB 227 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.1 3BDense 3B 1.8 GB 287 tok/s4-bit quantization
Granite 4.2 3BDense 3B 1.8 GB 287 tok/s4-bit quantization
Llama 3.2 3B InstructDense 3B 1.8 GB 287 tok/s4-bit quantization
Ministral 3 3BDense 3B 1.8 GB 287 tok/s4-bit quantization
Nanbeige 4.2 3BDense 3B 1.8 GB 287 tok/s4-bit quantization

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