Will it run? / Qwen 3 32B / Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB)

Can the Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) run Qwen 3 32B?

Comfortable Yes, at about 12 tokens/sec (estimated). That reads at a comfortable pace.

12estimated tokens/sec
21.5 GBmemory needed
48 GBavailable to the model
307 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run qwen3:32b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 20 GB. The Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) moves 307 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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Other models on the Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB)

lfm 2.5 8B (A1B)Fast120+ tok/s
Qwen 3 30B (A3B)Fast72 tok/s
Qwen3 Coder 30B (A3B)Fast72 tok/s
Qwen 3-VL 30B (A3B)Fast68 tok/s
Qwen3.5 35B (A3B)Fast64 tok/s
Qwen3.6 35B (A3B)Fast64 tok/s