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Home/Qwen3.5 27B/on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB

Can it run?

Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB run Qwen3.5 27B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

20.9 tok/s

TTFT

9270 ms

Safe context

41K

Memory

35.7 GB / 92.2 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights16.5 GB
KV Cache4.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom13.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well20.9 tok/s13483 ms74K
ChatCRuns well20.9 tok/s5056 ms22K
CodingCRuns well20.9 tok/s9270 ms41K
RAGCRuns well20.9 tok/s16854 ms74K
ReasoningCRuns well20.9 tok/s10955 ms41K

Quantization options

How Qwen3.5 27B (27B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB (92.2 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
10.5 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
13.2 GB
LowD33
NVFP4
4
15.1 GB
MediumD33
Q4_K_M
4
16.5 GB
MediumD33
Q5_K_M
5
19.4 GB
HighD34
Q6_K
6
22.1 GB
HighD35
Q8_0
8
28.9 GB
Very HighD36
F16Best for your GPU
16
55.4 GB
MaximumC42

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-unsloth--qwen3-5-27b-gguf

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3.5 27B well

AMDAMD Instinct MI350X 288GBBudget pick
C354.6 tok/s decode

~$8,000 MSRP

AMDAMD Instinct MI250X 128GBBest value
C151.5 tok/s decode

~$15,000 MSRP

NVIDIANVIDIA GH200 96GBBiggest leap
C196.7 tok/s decode

 

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