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Can the Mac Studio M5 Max (128GB) run llama3.1 70B?

NO

No. 36GB of memory can't hold the 54GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

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Specs

model file43GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory54GB working set
this machine36GB base, config to 128GB
params70B
licensellama3.1 (gated on HF)
price$2449

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull llama3.1:70b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

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