Will it run? / orca mini 70B / Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB)

Can the Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) run orca mini 70B?

Comfortable Yes, at about 13 tokens/sec (estimated). That reads at a comfortable pace.

13estimated tokens/sec
40.5 GBmemory needed
48 GBavailable to the model
614 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run orca-mini:70b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 39 GB. The Mac Studio M5 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) moves 614 GB/s, so the ceiling is 16 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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