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Home/Llama 3.3 70B/on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB run Llama 3.3 70B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

13.0 tok/s

TTFT

14844 ms

Safe context

36K

Memory

82.5 GB / 184.3 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights42.7 GB
KV Cache10.9 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom27.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well13.0 tok/s21591 ms63K
ChatCRuns well13.0 tok/s8097 ms19K
CodingCRuns well13.0 tok/s14844 ms36K
RAGCRuns well13.0 tok/s26988 ms63K
ReasoningCRuns well13.0 tok/s17542 ms36K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.3 70B (70B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB (184.3 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
27.3 GB
LowD33
Q3_K_S
3
34.3 GB
LowD33
NVFP4
4
39.2 GB
MediumD34
Q4_K_M
4
42.7 GB
MediumD34
Q5_K_M
5
50.4 GB
HighD35
Q6_K
6
57.4 GB
HighD36
Q8_0
8
74.9 GB
Very HighD38
F16Best for your GPU
16
143.5 GB
MaximumC44

Get started

Ollama
ollama run llama-3.3-70b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download llama-3.3-70b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 3.3 70B well

AMDAMD Instinct MI350X 288GBBudget pick
C136.8 tok/s decode

~$8,000 MSRP

AMDAMD Instinct MI300X 192GBBest value
C96.8 tok/s decode

~$15,000 MSRP

NVIDIAH100 NVL 188GBBiggest leap
C148 tok/s decode

 

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