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Can a Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GB run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B?

Yes. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GB at Q8_0 (9.1 GB needed, 96.0 GB usable), about 61 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GB · Model: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GB has 128 GB of unified memory and 614 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 96.0 GB. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B (7.62B, DeepSeek) at Q8_0 is a 8.1 GB download and needs 9.1 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size8.1 GB
Memory needed9.1 GB
Usable fast memory96.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~61 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run deepseek-r1:7b-qwen-distill-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GB 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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