Qwen3 Coder 480B-A35B on Apple M2 Pro (32 GB)

Can the Apple M2 Pro (32 GB) run Qwen3 Coder 480B-A35B?

8 pts

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Qwen3 Coder 480B-A35B needs about 196 GB even at Q2_K; the Apple M2 Pro (32 GB) has 21.4 GB usable.

Download Qwen3 Coder 480B-A35B

Recommended: Q2_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.

ollama run qwen3-coder:480b

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 Q2_K files (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-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)

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

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

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

How the F 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.	8.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Total	8.6 / 100	8 ptsWon't run (F) · 8 of 100 points: Model quality 8.6/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

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

Every quantization on the Apple M2 Pro (32 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Fit	Grade · points	Download
`Q2_K`	196 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	8 ptsWon't run (F) · 8 of 100 points: Model quality 8.6/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	240 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	10 ptsWon't run (F) · 10 of 100 points: Model quality 10.3/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	297 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	11 ptsWon't run (F) · 11 of 100 points: Model quality 11.7/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	345 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	11 ptsWon't run (F) · 11 of 100 points: Model quality 11.9/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	398 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.2/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	513 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.3/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	965 GB	21.4 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.3/45, 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.

Hardware that can run it

87 ptsExcellent (S) · 87 of 100 points: Model quality 38.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 8.3/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) Q4_K_M · 12.4 tok/s
63 ptsGood (B) · 63 of 100 points: Model quality 28.7/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 9.9/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q2_K · 17.3 tok/s

Models that do run on the Apple M2 Pro (32 GB)

91 ptsExcellent (S) · 91 of 100 points: Model quality 39.5/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 12.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q4_K_M · 27.8 tok/s
89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 35.3/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 45.6 tok/s
89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 35.2/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 45.6 tok/s
88 ptsExcellent (S) · 88 of 100 points: Model quality 33.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GLM-4.7 Flash (30B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 45.6 tok/s
88 ptsExcellent (S) · 88 of 100 points: Model quality 34.0/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 45.6 tok/s

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.