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Can a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?

Yes. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB at Q8_0 (17.3 GB needed, 72.0 GB usable), about 41 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB · Model: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB has 96 GB of unified memory and 819 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Mac Studio M3 Ultra (60c GPU) 96GB has the same memory and bandwidth, so the fit numbers match; this page is Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 72.0 GB. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B (14.8B, DeepSeek) at Q8_0 is a 16 GB download and needs 17.3 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size16 GB
Memory needed17.3 GB
Usable fast memory72.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~41 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 96GB 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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