Naive N0.5 Flash (309B-A15.5B) on Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB)

Can the Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB) run Naive N0.5 Flash (309B-A15.5B)?

Yes, it runs well (tight fit)

Runs well (tight fit). At Q3_K_M it needs about 168 GB of 192 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 78.8 tok/s.

Best quant: Q3_K_M
Generation speed: 78.8 tok/s
Prompt processing: 1,508 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.7 s
Largest safe context: 785K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB)

On macOS

Docker Model Runner

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp, vLLM

Handy if you already work in Docker.

docker model run hf.co/NaiveAI/Naive-N0.5-Flash

Text Generation WebUI

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 Naive N0.5 Flash (309B-A15.5B)

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/NaiveAI/Naive-N0.5-Flash (opens in a new tab)

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Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Naive AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/NaiveAI-Labs/Naive-N0.5-Flash (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/NaiveAI-Labs/Naive-N0.5-Flash

Links checked 5 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q3_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 welltight fit: How well it runs on the Apple M5 Ultra (256 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.	35.9 / 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.	24.0 / 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 score	89.9 / 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 (256 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	140 GB	192 GB	94.6 tok/s	Runs great	66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	168 GB	192 GB	78.8 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	205 GB	192 GB	54.5 tok/s	Runs wellover GPU memory limit	90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	236 GB	192 GB	46.5 tok/s	Slowfar over GPU memory limit	92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	269 GB	192 GB	—	Won't run	94Excellent quality (A+) · 94 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 12/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	344 GB	192 GB	—	Won't run	95Excellent quality (A+) · 95 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 12/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	634 GB	192 GB	—	Won't run	95Excellent quality (A+) · 95 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 12/100 (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

92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 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. Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) Q5_K_M · 39.7 tok/s · Runs great
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q3_K_M · 58.5 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) Q2_K · 70.0 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
94Excellent quality (A+) · 94 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 97/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB) Q6_K · 47.1 tok/s · Runs great
92Excellent quality (A+) · 92 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. AMD Instinct MI350X Q5_K_M · 175 tok/s · Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI325X Q4_K_M · 172 tok/s · Runs great

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.