Can Apple M3 Ultra run Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?
Yes. Measured 4.95 tok/s generation (MLX (mlx_lm.benchmark), FP8, 8,192-token context; source).
Every measured result for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B on Apple M3 Ultra
| Build | Quant / setup | Engine | tok/s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB: Qwen3.8 27B and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Apple MLX benchmark) | FP8, 8,192-token context | MLX (mlx_lm.benchmark) | 4.95 | source |
Memory: Apple M3 Ultra has 512 GB. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B weights are about 78.3 GB at Q4_K_M (128B params × 4.89 bits ÷ 8, before context/KV cache). Arithmetic, not a measurement; long contexts need more. Check other quants in the VRAM calculator.
Speeds are decode (generation) tokens/sec as reported by each source; quant, engine and context differ, so small gaps are noise.
All measured speeds for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B: best home rig for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B on other hardware: 2x Apple M5 Ultra · 4x Apple M5 Ultra · Apple M5 Ultra
Other models measured on Apple M3 Ultra: DeepSeek R1 671B · Muse Spark Open 816B-A42B · Qwen3.8 27B · gpt-oss 20B
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