Will it run? / mixtral 8X7B / Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB)

Can the Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) run mixtral 8X7B?

Fast Yes, at about 41 tokens/sec (estimated). Replies stream faster than you can read.

41estimated tokens/sec
27.5 GBmemory needed
48 GBavailable to the model
614 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run mixtral:8x7b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the active part of the model from memory once: 7.2 GB. The Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) moves 614 GB/s, so the ceiling is 85 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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