Will it run? / Qwen3.5 122B (A10B) / Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB)

Can the Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) run Qwen3.5 122B (A10B)?

Fast Yes, at about 48 tokens/sec (estimated). Replies stream faster than you can read. It only fits if you raise the GPU memory limit, and it'll be slower than usual.

48estimated tokens/sec
82.5 GBmemory needed
72 GBavailable to the model
1228.8 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run qwen3.5:122b-a10b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the active part of the model from memory once: 6.6 GB. The Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) moves 1228.8 GB/s, so the ceiling is 120+ 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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