Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB run Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Apple · 96 GB LPDDR5 · 819 GB/s bandwidth · Alibaba · 122.0B (active 10.0B) · MoE · model ctx up to 256K

Yes — the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB (96 GB LPDDR5) can run Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. At Q4 with the default 8K context it needs ≈ 70.1 GB VRAM (weights 67.1 GB + KV cache 2.0 GB + 1 GB runtime overhead), which fits within 96 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 52.1 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 247.0 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	69.1 GB	Yes	52.1 est.
Q4	8K default	70.1 GB	Yes	52.1 est.
Q4	32K	76.1 GB	Yes	52.1 est.
FP16	4K	246.0 GB	No	6.2 est.
FP16	8K default	247.0 GB	No	6.2 est.
FP16	32K	253.0 GB	No	5.9 est.

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	67.1 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	70.1 GB	96 GB
FP16	244.0 GB	2.0 GB	1 GB	247.0 GB	96 GB

Other GPUs that run Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

• 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.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈213.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈208.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈129.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈50.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB — ≈34.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B →

Other models for the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB

• MiniCPM5-1B — ≈482.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.5-2B — ≈260.6 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.
• Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-Next — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.5-35B-A3B — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB →