Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct on Apple M1 Max (64 GB)

Can the Apple M1 Max (64 GB) run Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 26.6 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 12.9 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 12.9 tok/s
Prompt processing: 197 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 5.2 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the Apple M1 Max (64 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX · use the MLX build

Runs the MLX build, typically up to 10% faster than GGUF for a model with 32.8B active parameters on Apple silicon.
Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct in LM Studio

Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 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 Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Recommended for the Apple M1 Max (64 GB): Q4_K_M. 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 qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q4_K_M

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder (opens in a new tab)

Qwen’s coder repo, renamed from Qwen2.5-Coder to Qwen3-Coder.

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder

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

How it’s rated

Quality 63Good quality (B) · 63 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.: 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 well: How well it runs on the Apple M1 Max (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.	28.6 / 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.	8.5 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	12.8 / 15
Match score	74.9 / 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 M1 Max (64 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	19.7 GB	48.0 GB	21.2 tok/s	Runs well	46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	22.7 GB	48.0 GB	16.7 tok/s	Runs well	56Good quality (B) · 56 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 (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	26.6 GB	48.0 GB	12.9 tok/s	Runs well	63Good quality (B) · 63 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 (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	29.9 GB	48.0 GB	10.6 tok/s	Runs well	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	33.5 GB	48.0 GB	8.9 tok/s	Slow	66Good quality (B) · 66 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 (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	41.4 GB	48.0 GB	6.6 tok/s	Slowtight fit	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	72.2 GB	48.0 GB	—	Won't run	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · part 1 of 9 (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

66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q6_K · 46.5 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q4_K_M · 37.7 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q4_K_M · 35.0 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
63Good quality (B) · 63 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. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q4_K_M · 30.9 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q6_K · 46.5 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (64 GB) Q4_K_M · 17.6 tok/s · Runs well

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.