Will it run? / Mistral medium 3.5 128B / Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB)

Can the Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) run Mistral medium 3.5 128B?

Usable, but slow Yes, at about 7.4 tokens/sec (estimated). It works, but you'll wait on longer answers. It only fits if you raise the GPU memory limit, and it'll be slower than usual.

7.4estimated tokens/sec
81.5 GBmemory needed
72 GBavailable to the model
1228.8 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run mistral-medium-3.5:128b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 80 GB. The Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) moves 1228.8 GB/s, so the ceiling is 15 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 80%, calibrated against a measured Mac run. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.

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