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Home/Qwen 2.5 32B/on Mac Studio M2 Ultra 64GB

Can it run?

Can Mac Studio M2 Ultra 64GB run Qwen 2.5 32B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

23.8 tok/s

TTFT

8145 ms

Safe context

23K

Memory

32.6 GB / 46.1 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights19.5 GB
KV Cache5.0 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom6.9 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well23.8 tok/s11847 ms39K
ChatCRuns well23.8 tok/s4442 ms12K
CodingCRuns well23.8 tok/s8145 ms23K
RAGCRuns well23.8 tok/s14808 ms39K
ReasoningCRuns well23.8 tok/s9625 ms23K

Quantization options

How Qwen 2.5 32B (32B params) fits at each quantization level on Mac Studio M2 Ultra 64GB (46.1 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
12.5 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
15.7 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
17.9 GB
MediumD38
Q4_K_M
4
19.5 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
23.0 GB
HighD40
Q6_K
6
26.2 GB
HighC41
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
34.2 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
65.6 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-2.5-32b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-2.5-32b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen 2.5 32B well

NVIDIARTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GBBudget pick
C57.8 tok/s decode

 

NVIDIARTX 6000 Ada 48GBBiggest leap
C40.3 tok/s decode

 

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