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Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GB run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class)?

Yes. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class) fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GB at Default (27.7 GB needed, 384.0 GB usable), about 108 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GB · Model: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class)

Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GB has 512 GB of unified memory and 819 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 384.0 GB. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class) (74B, 9B active, NVIDIA) at Default is a 25 GB download and needs 27.7 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantDefault
Download size25 GB
Memory needed27.7 GB
Usable fast memory384.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~108 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b
Open Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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