Will it run? / Mistral small3.2 24B / Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB)

Can the Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) run Mistral small3.2 24B?

Fast Yes, at about 66 tokens/sec (estimated). Replies stream faster than you can read.

66estimated tokens/sec
16.5 GBmemory needed
192 GBavailable to the model
1228.8 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run mistral-small3.2:24b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 15 GB. The Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) moves 1228.8 GB/s, so the ceiling is 82 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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