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Can a Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB run Llama 3.2 Vision 11B?

Yes. Llama 3.2 Vision 11B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB at Q8_0 (13.5 GB needed, 27.0 GB usable), about 31 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB · Model: Llama 3.2 Vision 11B

Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB has 36 GB of unified memory and 460 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 27.0 GB. Llama 3.2 Vision 11B (10.7B, Meta) at Q8_0 is a 12 GB download and needs 13.5 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size12 GB
Memory needed13.5 GB
Usable fast memory27.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~31 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB 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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