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What local LLMs run on Mac Studio M3 Ultra (60c GPU) 256GB?

With 256 GB unified memory (about 192.0 GB usable by the GPU), these are the best open models that fit. The top pick is Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B (MoE) at Q4_K_M (~145.7 GB, ~25 tok/s): ollama run qwen3-vl:235b.

Best for coding: Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE) (qwen3:235b), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B (MoE) (qwen3.5:122b), Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE) (nemotron-3.5-super:120b-a12b-q8_0).

Runtimes available for this hardware: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX.

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#ModelQuantMemory neededFitSpeedCommand
1Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B (MoE)Q4_K_M145.7 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:235b
2Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE)Q4_K_M144.3 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run qwen3:235b
3Qwen3.5 122B-A10B (MoE)Q4_K_M83.7 GBfits in fast memory~51 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:122b
4Llama 4 Scout 109B (MoE)Q4_K_M69.7 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
5Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE)Q8_0135.7 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-super:120b-a12b-q8_0
6gpt-oss 120B (MoE, MXFP4)MXFP467.3 GBfits in fast memory~116 tok/sollama run gpt-oss:120b
7Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class)Default27.7 GBfits in fast memory~108 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b
8Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B-A6B (MoE)Q8_0191.7 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0
9Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE)Q8_087.3 GBfits in fast memory~103 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
10Bonsai 2 27B (ternary)Q2_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~79 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:27b
11Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
12Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
13Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_034.4 GBfits in fast memory~92 tok/sollama run qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0
14Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
15Laguna XS 2.1 33B-A3B (MoE)Q8_037.4 GBfits in fast memory~101 tok/sollama run laguna-xs-2.1:q8_0
16Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE)Q8_029.6 GBfits in fast memory~79 tok/sollama run gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q8_0
17Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_036.4 GBfits in fast memory~99 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q8_0
18GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~106 tok/sollama run glm-4.7-flash:q8_0
19Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_035.7 GBfits in fast memory~100 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
20Llama 3.3 70BQ8_079.1 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run llama3.3:70b-instruct-q8_0
21DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BQ8_079.1 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:70b-llama-distill-q8_0
22Ornith-1.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Default24.8 GBfits in fast memory~166 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:35b
23gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4)MXFP415.1 GBfits in fast memory~136 tok/sollama run gpt-oss:20b
24Qwen3-VL 32BQ8_038.6 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:32b-instruct-q8_0
25Qwen3 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run qwen3:32b-q8_0
26DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q8_0
27North Mini Code 1.0 30B (MoE)Q8_034.1 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run north-mini-code-1.0:q8_0
28Muse Glimmer 30BQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run muse-glimmer:30b-q8_0
29Gemma 4 31BQ8_036.5 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run gemma4:31b-it-q8_0
30LFM2.5 24B-A2B (MoE)Q8_026.2 GBfits in fast memory~157 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:24b-a2b-q8_0
31Granite 4.2 30BQ8_033.1 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run granite4.2:30b-q8_0
32Qwen3.5 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:27b-q8_0
33Qwen3.6 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:27b-q8_0
34Gemma 3 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run gemma3:27b-it-q8_0
35Clef 27B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run clef:27b-q8_0
36Qwen3.8 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
37Mistral Small 24BQ8_026.8 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run mistral-small:24b-instruct-2501-q8_0
38Devstral Small 2 24BQ8_027.8 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run devstral-small-2:24b-instruct-2512-q8_0
39Qwen3 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run qwen3:14b-q8_0
40DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q8_0
41Phi-4 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run phi4:14b-q8_0
42Ministral 3 14BQ8_016.6 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run ministral-3:14b-instruct-2512-q8_0
43Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)Q8_051.8 GBfits in fast memory~24 tok/sollama run mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q8_0
44Mistral Nemo 12BQ8_014.2 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-q8_0
45Gemma 3 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run gemma3:12b-it-q8_0
46Gemma 4 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run gemma4:12b-it-q8_0
47Llama 3.2 Vision 11BQ8_013.5 GBfits in fast memory~55 tok/sollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-q8_0
48Qwen3.5 9BQ8_011.4 GBfits in fast memory~66 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
49Nimble v3 9B (Bespoke Labs, decision)Q8_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~69 tok/sollama run nimble-v3:9b-q8_0
50Clef-Flash 9B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_012.4 GBfits in fast memory~60 tok/sollama run clef-flash:9b-q8_0
51Ministral 3 8BQ8_011.3 GBfits in fast memory~66 tok/sollama run ministral-3:8b-instruct-2512-q8_0
52Granite 4.2 8BQ8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~70 tok/sollama run granite4.2:8b-q8_0
53Qwen3-VL 8BQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~67 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
54Qwen 2.5 VL 7BQ8_010.8 GBfits in fast memory~70 tok/sollama run qwen2.5vl:7b-q8_0
55Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~74 tok/sollama run qwen3:8b-q8_0
56DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~74 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:8b-0528-qwen3-q8_0
57MiniCPM-V 2.6 8BQ8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~72 tok/sollama run minicpm-v:8b-2.6-q8_0
58Gemma 3n E4B (on-device)Q8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~69 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e4b-it-q8_0
59Gemma 4 E4B (effective 4.5B)Q8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~73 tok/sollama run gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0
60Bonsai 2 9B (ternary)Q2_04.6 GBfits in fast memory~205 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:9b
61DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:7b-qwen-distill-q8_0
62Ornith-1.5 9BDefault8 GBfits in fast memory~99 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:9b
63Qwen 2.5 72BQ8_081.1 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:72b-instruct-q8_0
64LFM2.5 8B-A1B (MoE)Q8_09.8 GBfits in fast memory~308 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:8b-a1b-q8_0
65Gemma 3n E2B (on-device)Q8_07.8 GBfits in fast memory~95 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e2b-it-q8_0
66Qwen 2.5 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:32b-instruct-q8_0
67Qwen 2.5 Coder 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q8_0
68Gemma 4 E2B (effective 2.3B)Q8_07.2 GBfits in fast memory~109 tok/sollama run gemma4:e2b-it-q8_0
69Qwen3.5 4BQ8_06.4 GBfits in fast memory~126 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:4b-q8_0
70DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B (MoE)Q8_018 GBfits in fast memory~126 tok/sollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b-lite-instruct-q8_0
71Qwen3-VL 4BQ8_06.3 GBfits in fast memory~128 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:4b-instruct-q8_0
72Gemma 3 4BQ8_06.2 GBfits in fast memory~131 tok/sollama run gemma3:4b-it-q8_0
73Qwen3 4BQ8_05.2 GBfits in fast memory~149 tok/sollama run qwen3:4b-q8_0
74tev1 4B (Together AI, decision)Q8_05.4 GBfits in fast memory~142 tok/sollama run tev1:4b-q8_0
75Ministral 3 3BQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~146 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
76Phi-4 Mini 3.8BQ8_04.9 GBfits in fast memory~160 tok/sollama run phi4-mini:3.8b-q8_0
77Qwen 2.5 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q8_0
78Qwen 2.5 Coder 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~41 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:14b-instruct-q8_0
79Granite 4.2 3BQ8_04.7 GBfits in fast memory~168 tok/sollama run granite4.2:3b-q8_0
80Bonsai 2 4B (ternary)Q2_02.8 GBfits in fast memory~410 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:4b
81Llama 3.2 3BQ8_04.2 GBfits in fast memory~193 tok/sollama run llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0
82Llama 3.1 8BQ8_09.5 GBfits in fast memory~77 tok/sollama run llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0
83Qwen3.5 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~243 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:2b-q8_0
84Qwen 2.5 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q8_0
85Qwen 2.5 Coder 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b-instruct-q8_0
86Qwen3-VL 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~243 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:2b-instruct-q8_0
87Mistral 7B v0.3Q8_08.7 GBfits in fast memory~85 tok/sollama run mistral:7b-instruct-q8_0
88LLaVA 1.6 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~84 tok/sollama run llava:7b-v1.6-vicuna-q8_0
89Qwen3 1.7BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~298 tok/sollama run qwen3:1.7b-q8_0
90Code Llama 7BQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~91 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
91DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BQ8_02.6 GBfits in fast memory~345 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b-qwen-distill-q8_0
92SmolLM2 1.7BQ8_02.5 GBfits in fast memory~364 tok/sollama run smollm2:1.7b
93Bonsai 2 2B (ternary)Q2_02 GBfits in fast memory~720 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:2b
94GLM-OCR 0.9BBF163.7 GBfits in fast memory~243 tok/sollama run glm-ocr:latest
95MiniCPM-V 4.6 1BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~345 tok/sollama run minicpm-v4.6:q8_0
96Llama 3.2 1BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~504 tok/sollama run llama3.2:1b
97LFM2.5 1.2B ThinkingQ8_01.9 GBfits in fast memory~546 tok/sollama run lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b-q8_0
98Gemma 3 1BQ8_01.8 GBfits in fast memory~596 tok/sollama run gemma3:1b-it-q8_0
99Qwen3.5 0.8BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~655 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:0.8b-q8_0
100Qwen3 0.6BQ8_01.5 GBfits in fast memory~789 tok/sollama run qwen3:0.6b-q8_0
101Qwen 2.5 3BQ8_04.1 GBfits in fast memory~199 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:3b-instruct-q8_0
102SmolLM2 360MFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~898 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
103SmolLM2 135MFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2427 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
104Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5BQ8_02.3 GBfits in fast memory~410 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:1.5b-instruct-q8_0

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 2026-10-18.

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