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Can the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) run MiniMax-Text-01?

72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 310 GB of 384 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 17.7 tok/s.

Best quant
Q4_K_M
Generation speed
17.7 tok/s
Prompt processing
384 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
2.7 s
Largest safe context
976K

Best app to run it on the Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB)

On macOS

Docker Model Runner

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp, vLLM

  • Handy if you already work in Docker.
docker model run hf.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01

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 MiniMax-Text-01

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01 (opens in a new tab)

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

How it’s rated

Quality 72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 well
How well it runs on the Apple M3 Ultra (512 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.32.5 / 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.10.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score82.5 / 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 M3 Ultra (512 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 214 GB 384 GB 28.2 tok/s Runs well 53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 255 GB 384 GB 22.6 tok/s Runs well 63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 310 GB 384 GB 17.7 tok/s Runs well 72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 355 GB 384 GB 14.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 406 GB 384 GB 10.6 tok/s Runs wellover GPU memory limit 75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 515 GB 384 GB — Won't run 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 944 GB 384 GB — Won't run 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. 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

Quick answers

How much memory does MiniMax-Text-01 need on the M3 Ultra 512GB?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 310 GB. The M3 Ultra 512GB has 384 GB usable.

How fast is MiniMax-Text-01 on the M3 Ultra 512GB?

About 17.7 tok/s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of MiniMax-Text-01 should I use on the M3 Ultra 512GB?

Q4_K_M. 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.

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