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Can a Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GB run Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B?

Yes. Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GB at Q8_0 (17.3 GB needed, 36.0 GB usable), about 31 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GB · Model: Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B

Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GB has 48 GB of unified memory and 614 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 36.0 GB. Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B (14.8B, Alibaba) 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 memory36.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~31 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run qwen2.5-coder:14b-instruct-q8_0
Open Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GB 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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