Can I Run Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B on Apple M5 Max?

Name: LLM Configurator — GPU VRAM Checker
Author: LLM Configurator

作者： Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新： 2026年8月15日

No. Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B needs 134.0 GB at IQ2_M (sub-Q4) and the Apple M5 Max has only 128 GB. No quantization we publish closes a gap that size.

The numbers

Either step down to a smaller size in this family, or move to a Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB), the cheapest card we track with enough VRAM.

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Cheapest card we track with enough VRAM for Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B:

Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra

192 GB VRAM · 60 W board power

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Won't fit — rent Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B instead

Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B needs ~134 GB but this GPU has 128 GB. Rent a 2× A100 (160 GB)-class GPU by the hour instead of buying one:

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