Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB run MiniMax-M2.7?

Apple · 96 GB LPDDR5 · 819 GB/s bandwidth · MiniMax · 228.7B (active 10B) · MoE · model ctx up to 200K

No — MiniMax-M2.7 at Q4 needs ≈ 127.79 GB even at 4K context, beyond the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB's 96 GB LPDDR5. It would only run with heavy CPU/disk offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 82.7 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 460.4 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	127.79 GB	No	84.0 est.
Q4	8K default	128.79 GB	No	82.7 est.
Q4	32K	134.79 GB	No	75.5 est.
FP16	4K	459.4 GB	No	—
FP16	8K default	460.4 GB	No	—
FP16	32K	466.4 GB	No	—

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB VRAM
Q4	125.79 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	128.79 GB	96 GB
FP16	457.4 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	460.4 GB	96 GB

Other GPUs that run MiniMax-M2.7

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈509.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈337.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈305.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈50.9 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for MiniMax-M2.7 →

Other models for the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈651.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈521.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈434.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈260.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB →