Will it run? / orca mini 70B

Can I run orca mini 70B on a Mac or mini PC?

orca mini 70B needs about 40.5 GB of memory. It fits on 7 of the 15 machines we track. The cheapest current machine that runs it at a comfortable 10+ tokens/sec is the Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) ($3,799).

39 GBdownload (Q4_K_M)
~40.5 GBmemory needed
7/15machines it fits on
ollama run orca-mini:70b
MachineMemoryFits?Tokens/secFrom
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) 96 GBYes25
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) 256 GBYes25
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Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) 64 GBYes13
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Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) 64 GBYes6.3
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Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) older 64 GBYes5.6
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NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) 128 GBYes4.9
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Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC (128GB) 128 GBYes4.6
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Mac mini M6 (16GB) 16 GBNo–
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Mac mini M6 (32GB) 32 GBNo–
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Mac mini M5 Pro (24GB) 24 GBNo–
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Mac mini M4 (16GB) older 16 GBNo–
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Mac mini M2 (16GB) older 16 GBNo–
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GEEKOM A6 (Ryzen 7 6800H, 32GB) 32 GBNo–
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Beelink SER7 (Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB) 32 GBNo–
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Minisforum UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32GB) 32 GBNo–
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Around 10 tokens/sec reads comfortably; under 5 feels slow. How we estimate.

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