Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) on Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB)

Can the Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB) run Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B)?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 126 GB of 192 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 75.5 tok/s.

Best quant: Q8_0
Generation speed: 75.5 tok/s
Prompt processing: 3,832 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Ultra (256 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

Want an agent? Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

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 Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B)

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/mradermacher/Ring-flash-2.0-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/Ring-flash-2.0-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ant Group (inclusionAI), for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ring-flash-2.0 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Ant Group (inclusionAI). The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/inclusionAI/Ling-V2 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/inclusionAI/Ling-V2

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

How it’s rated

Quality 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, 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 (256 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.	35.1 / 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.	15.0 / 15
Match score	90.1 / 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 (256 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	57.7 GB	192 GB	165 tok/s	Runs great	54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	66.9 GB	192 GB	144 tok/s	Runs great	65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	79.3 GB	192 GB	122 tok/s	Runs great	74Great quality (A) · 74 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.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	89.5 GB	192 GB	107 tok/s	Runs great	75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	101 GB	192 GB	94.9 tok/s	Runs great	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	126 GB	192 GB	75.5 tok/s	Runs great	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	222 GB	192 GB	34.2 tok/s	Slowfar over GPU memory limit	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (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

78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) Q8_0 · 55.6 tok/s · Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q8_0 · 56.7 tok/s · Runs great
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q5_K_M · 146 tok/s · Runs great
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) Q5_K_M · 42.5 tok/s · Runs great
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) Q5_K_M · 39.2 tok/s · Runs great
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (128 GB) Q6_K · 53.1 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Quick answers

How much memory does Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) need on the M5 Ultra 256GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 126 GB. The M5 Ultra 256GB has 192 GB usable.

How fast is Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) on the M5 Ultra 256GB?

About 75.5 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Ring Flash 2.0 (100B-A6B) should I use on the M5 Ultra 256GB?

Q8_0. 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.