Apple · unified memory
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
The Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB has 96GB of unified memory, roughly 72GB of it GPU-addressable, with 819 GB/s of bandwidth. The largest model that loads cleanly at a quality quant is Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (llama.cpp, 8K context).
Unified memory: 96GB shared between CPU and GPU; we count ~75% as GPU-addressable for model weights.
- Unified memory
- 96 GB
- GPU-addressable
- ~72 GB (75%)
- Memory bandwidth
- 819 GB/s
- Backend
- metal
- Price (as configured)
- $5,299
Specs as of 2026-07-11 · source
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What a Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB can run
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