Can I Run Qwen 3.5 on Apple M3?

作者: Jakub Rusinowski · 最后更新: 2026年7月12日

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~7.7 GB of headroom running Qwen 3.5 27B at Q4_K_M (16.30125 GB, ~3 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

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Apple M3 Specs

VRAM24 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth100 GB/s

Qwen 3.5 27B on the Apple M3: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 24 GB?Max context
F1655.7 GB✗ No
Q8_030.4 GB✗ No
Q6_K23.8 GB✓ Yes4K
Q5_K_M20.8 GB✓ Yes16K
Q4_K_M18 GB✓ Yes16K
Q3_K_M13.2 GB✓ Yes32K
Q2_K10.5 GB✓ Yes64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 24 GB of unified memory. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Qwen 3.5 Sizes That Fit the Apple M3

Qwen 3.5 27BQ4_K_M · 16.30125 GB · ~3 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_M · 5.43375 GB · ~9 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 4BQ4_K_M · 2.415 GB · ~18 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 2BQ4_K_M · 1.2075 GB · ~31 tok/s (est.)
Qwen 3.5 0.8BQ4_K_M · 0.48300000000000004 GB · ~60 tok/s (est.)
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Apple M3 · MSRP
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FAQ

Will Qwen 3.5 run on the Apple M3?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~7.7 GB of headroom running Qwen 3.5 27B at Q4_K_M (16.30125 GB, ~3 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

Which Qwen 3.5 variant fits best on the Apple M3?

Qwen 3.5 27B at Q4_K_M quantization (16.30125 GB), estimated ~3 tokens/sec, up to 16K context.

Every Qwen 3.5 size on the Apple M3

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B134.0 GBDoes not fit
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B73.7 GBDoes not fit
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B21.1 GBRuns at Q3_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27B16.3 GBRuns~3 tok/s
Qwen 3.5 9B5.4 GBRuns~9 tok/s
Qwen 3.5 4B2.4 GBRuns~18 tok/s
Qwen 3.5 2B1.2 GBRuns~31 tok/s
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.5 GBRuns~60 tok/s

Qwen 3.5 on Other GPUs

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