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can it run

Can the Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) run qwen3 1.7B?

YES

Comfortably. 96GB of memory against a 4GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

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Specs

model file1.4GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory4GB working set
this machine96GB base, config to 512GB (512GB ships late Oct)
params1.7B
licenseapache-2.0
price$9499

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull qwen3:1.7b

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

Alternatives

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