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Can the Apple M5 Max (48 GB) run Tülu 3 70B?

50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs well (tight fit)

Runs well (tight fit). At Q2_K it needs about 34.4 GB of 36.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 15.1 tok/s.

Best quant
Q2_K
Generation speed
15.1 tok/s
Prompt processing
166 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
6.2 s
Largest safe context
12K

Best app to run it on the Apple M5 Max (48 GB)

On macOS

LM Studio

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

  • Runs the MLX build, typically up to 10% faster than GGUF for a model with 70.6B active parameters on Apple silicon.
  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Tülu 3 70B in LM Studio

  • Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

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 Tülu 3 70B

Recommended for the Apple M5 Max (48 GB): Q2_K. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run tulu3:70b

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q2_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B-GGUF:Q2_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

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

How it’s rated

Quality 50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, 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 welltight fit
How well it runs on the Apple M5 Max (48 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.22.7 / 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.24.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.9.2 / 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 score70.9 / 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 Max (48 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 34.4 GB 36.0 GB 15.1 tok/s Runs welltight fit 50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 40.7 GB 36.0 GB 10.1 tok/s Slowfar over GPU memory limit 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 49.2 GB 36.0 GB — Won't run 68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 56.3 GB 36.0 GB — Won't run 69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 64.0 GB 36.0 GB — Won't run 71Great quality (A) · 71 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 80.9 GB 36.0 GB — Won't run 72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
F16 147 GB 36.0 GB — Won't run 72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (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 Tülu 3 70B need on the M5 Max 48GB?

At Q2_K it needs about 34.4 GB. The M5 Max 48GB has 36.0 GB usable.

How fast is Tülu 3 70B on the M5 Max 48GB?

About 15.1 tok/s at Q2_K, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Tülu 3 70B should I use on the M5 Max 48GB?

Q2_K. 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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