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Can the Apple M5 Max (64 GB) run Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507?

89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 34.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q8_0 it needs about 37.6 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 50.1 tok/s.

Best quant
Q8_0
Generation speed
50.1 tok/s
Prompt processing
3,551 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
111K

Download Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507

Recommended for the Apple M5 Max (64 GB): Q8_0. 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.

ollama run qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q8_0

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

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q8_0 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF:Q8_0

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 (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 (opens in a new tab)

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

Qwen’s main repo, renamed from Qwen2.5 to Qwen3; it still documents Qwen2.5.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the S grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.34.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.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
Total89.7 / 10089 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 34.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the Apple M5 Max (64 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Fit Grade · points Download
Q2_K 17.5 GB 48.0 GB 162 tok/s Runs well 72 ptsGreat (A) · 72 of 100 points: Model quality 24.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 8.4/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 20.2 GB 48.0 GB 127 tok/s Runs well 78 ptsGreat (A) · 78 of 100 points: Model quality 29.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 9.7/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 23.9 GB 48.0 GB 98.3 tok/s Runs well 84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 32.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 11.5/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 26.9 GB 48.0 GB 81.2 tok/s Runs well 86 ptsExcellent (S) · 86 of 100 points: Model quality 33.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 12.9/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 30.3 GB 48.0 GB 68.2 tok/s Runs well 88 ptsExcellent (S) · 88 of 100 points: Model quality 34.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 14.6/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 37.6 GB 48.0 GB 50.1 tok/s Runs well 89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 34.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 66.3 GB 48.0 GB — Won't run 10 ptsWon't run (F) · 10 of 100 points: Model quality 10.4/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15 GGUF · folder (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.