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Can the Apple M5 Pro (64 GB) run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B?

69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 11.1 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 50.0 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
50.0 tok/s
Prompt processing
1,295 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.8 s
Largest safe context
64K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Pro (64 GB)

On macOS

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:e4b
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 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 Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B

Recommended for the Apple M5 Pro (64 GB): Q6_K. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:e4b

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q6_K (UD-Q6_K_XL) file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-GGUF:UD-Q6_K_XL

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-BF16 (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 69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q6_K, 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 Pro (64 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.31.2 / 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.5.4 / 15
Match score76.5 / 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 Pro (64 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 7.8 GB 48.0 GB 118 tok/s Runs great 49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 8.5 GB 48.0 GB 93.2 tok/s Runs great 58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q3_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 9.5 GB 48.0 GB 72.1 tok/s Runs great 66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q4_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 10.3 GB 48.0 GB 59.6 tok/s Runs great 67Good quality (B) · 67 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. GGUF (UD-Q5_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 11.1 GB 48.0 GB 50.0 tok/s Runs great 69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q6_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 13.1 GB 48.0 GB 36.7 tok/s Runs great 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 20.6 GB 48.0 GB 16.9 tok/s Runs well 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab) 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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