Hunyuan 4B Instruct on Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB)

Can the Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB) run Hunyuan 4B Instruct?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 16.0 GB of 72.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 70.5 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 70.5 tok/s
Prompt processing: 5,539 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 256K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX · use the MLX build

Runs the MLX build, typically 20–35% faster than GGUF for a model with 4.2B active parameters on Apple silicon.
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Open Hunyuan 4B Instruct in LM Studio

MLX LM Runs the MLX build, typically 20–35% faster than GGUF for a model with 4.2B active parameters on Apple silicon.
Jan Runs the MLX build, typically 20–35% faster than GGUF for a model with 4.2B active parameters on Apple silicon.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Hunyuan 4B Instruct

Recommended for the Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB): F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/tencent_Hunyuan-4B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/tencent_Hunyuan-4B-Instruct-GGUF:BF16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Tencent, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan-4B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Tencent. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-7B (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-7B

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	18.9 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	5.1 / 15
Match score	64.0 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Apple M5 Ultra (96 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	9.3 GB	72.0 GB	494 tok/s	Runs great	29Basic quality (D) · 29 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	9.6 GB	72.0 GB	389 tok/s	Runs great	35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	10.1 GB	72.0 GB	301 tok/s	Runs great	39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	10.6 GB	72.0 GB	248 tok/s	Runs great	40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	11.0 GB	72.0 GB	209 tok/s	Runs great	41Fair quality (C) · 41 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	12.0 GB	72.0 GB	153 tok/s	Runs great	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	16.0 GB	72.0 GB	70.5 tok/s	Runs great	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q8_0 · 40.3 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 45.9 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER F16 · 50.2 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti F16 · 61.1 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 F16 · 65.5 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 51.6 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Hunyuan 4B Instruct need on the M5 Ultra 96GB?

At F16 it needs about 16.0 GB. The M5 Ultra 96GB has 72.0 GB usable.

How fast is Hunyuan 4B Instruct on the M5 Ultra 96GB?

About 70.5 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Hunyuan 4B Instruct should I use on the M5 Ultra 96GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.