Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) × Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Can the Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Yes, usable
Yes. The Apple M3 Max (40-core GPU, 64GB) can run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct at up to Q8_0 (needs ~38.8 GB of 48.0 GB usable), at an estimated ~12.7 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 66.31 tok/s Llama 2 7B Q4_0 result (source). No direct public benchmark of this exact pair is recorded yet.
By quantization (8K context)
| Quant | Memory needed | Fits? | Est. tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3_K_M | 19.4 GB | ✅ | ~15.9 |
| Q4_K_M | 23.4 GB | ✅ | ~12.7 |
| Q5_K_M | 27.0 GB | ✅ | ~10.8 |
| Q6_K | 30.8 GB | ✅ | ~9.4 |
| Q8_0 | 38.8 GB | ✅ | ~7.3 |
| F16 | 70.5 GB | ❌ | — |
Fastest hardware for Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — ~55.7 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 — ~35.8 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX — ~35.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti — ~32.9 tok/s at Q4_K_M
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — ~30.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
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