Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) × Qwen3 32B
Can the Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) run Qwen3 32B?
Yes
Yes. The Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) can run Qwen3 32B at up to F16 (needs ~70.5 GB of 96.0 GB usable), at an estimated ~23.1 tokens/sec at Q4_K_M.
Speed is estimated from memory bandwidth calibrated with a measured 119.92 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 | ✅ | ~28.7 |
| Q4_K_M | 23.4 GB | ✅ | ~23.1 |
| Q5_K_M | 27.0 GB | ✅ | ~19.6 |
| Q6_K | 30.8 GB | ✅ | ~16.9 |
| Q8_0 | 38.8 GB | ✅ | ~13.2 |
| F16 | 70.5 GB | ✅ | ~7.0 |
Fastest hardware for Qwen3 32B
- 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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