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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

Every model we track, graded at its best clean-fit quant.

ModelBest-quant verdict · llama.cpp · 8K context
Qwen3-8BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
gemma-4-26B-A4B-itFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
Qwen2.5-7B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Qwen2.5-1.5B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Llama-3.2-1B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Llama-3.1-8B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1Won't fitbeta
Qwen3.5-9BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
gpt-oss-20bFits · A+ · MXFP4interactivebeta
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
Qwen2.5-3B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Qwen3-32BFits · A+ · Q8_0usable
Qwen3.6-27BFits · A+ · Q8_0usablebeta
Qwen2.5-0.5B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
gpt-oss-120bTight · C · MXFP4interactivebeta
Qwen3-14BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Qwen3-30B-A3BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
Qwen2.5-32B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0usable
DeepSeek-V4-FlashWon't fitbeta
Qwen2.5-14B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Llama-3.2-3B-InstructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
gemma-3-4b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
gemma-3-12b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
Llama-3.1-70B-InstructFits · B · Q6_Kpainful
Phi-3.5-mini-instructFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
Phi-4Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32BFits · A+ · Q8_0usable
gemma-3-27b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0usablebeta
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructFits · B · Q6_Kpainful
Qwen2.5-72B-InstructFits · B · Q5_K_Mpainful
gemma-2-2b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7BFits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
gemma-2-9b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0interactivebeta
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407Fits · A+ · Q8_0interactive
QwQ-32BFits · A+ · Q8_0usable
Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501Fits · A+ · Q8_0usable
gemma-2-27b-itFits · A+ · Q8_0usablebeta

Verdicts computed from published specs and measured GGUF sizes — how the math works.