Hardware
Mac Studio M5 Max 36GB
Current Studio entry. Strong for 32B, not enough memory for 70B Q4.
Memory
36 GB unifiedBandwidth
460 GB/swww.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/Price
$2,900€2,590
14 Oct 2026
price unverifiedParts in the catalog
- Mac Studio M5 Max, 36 GB, 460 GB/s
Which models fit
Estimate at 8,192 tokens, or the model's maximum when that is shorter. full means the formula fits in usable memory. offload means GPU plus system RAM. no means it does not fit. This is not a measured file.
| Model | Q4estimate | Q5estimate | Q8estimate | FP16estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.2 3B | full | full | full | full |
| Llama 3.1 8B | full | full | full | full |
| Mistral 7B v0.3 | full | full | full | full |
| Gemma 2 9B | full | full | full | full |
| Qwen2.5 14B | full | full | full | no |
| Phi-4 14B | full | full | full | no |
| Gemma 2 27B | full | full | no | no |
| Qwen2.5 32B | full | full | no | no |
| Llama 3.3 70B | no | no | no | no |
| Qwen2.5 72B | no | no | no | no |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill 70B | no | no | no | no |