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Can the Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB) run MiniMax M3.1 Flash (428B-A23B)?

92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q4_K_M it needs about 294 GB of 384 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 46.5 tok/s.

Best quant
Q4_K_M
Generation speed
46.5 tok/s
Prompt processing
1,016 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
1.0 s
Largest safe context
723K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open MiniMax M3.1 Flash (428B-A23B) in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

Want an agent? MiniMax M3.1 Flash (428B-A23B) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download MiniMax M3.1 Flash (428B-A23B)

Recommended for the Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB): Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Ollama

Ollama offers this only as a cloud model (it runs on Ollama’s servers, not your machine). To run it locally, use the GGUF files below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q4_K_M (UD-Q4_K_XL) files (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from MiniMax, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.41.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score96.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 204 GB 384 GB 70.6 tok/s Runs great 67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 243 GB 384 GB 57.9 tok/s Runs great 81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q3_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 294 GB 384 GB 46.5 tok/s Runs great 92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q4_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 337 GB 384 GB 39.3 tok/s Runs welltight fit 94Excellent quality (A+) · 94 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 96/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 384 GB 384 GB 28.6 tok/s Runs wellover GPU memory limit 96Excellent quality (A+) · 96 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 487 GB 384 GB — Won't run 97Excellent quality (A+) · 97 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 13/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 890 GB 384 GB — Won't run 97Excellent quality (A+) · 97 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 13/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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