Can I run it?

Can I run Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct on Apple M1 Max?

Tight fit

Tight fit fully in unified memory on your Apple M1 Max at UD-Q5_K_XL, 8K context, about 23–31 tok/s. Weights 20.2 GB plus 0.75 GB of KV cache — 21.5 GB of 24.0 GB usable. Up to 16K context still fits.

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct details · Apple M1 Max page · How this estimate is made

Run commands

llama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:UD-Q5_K_XL -c 8192 -ngl 48

ollama run qwen3

lms get unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF
# Then load quant UD-Q5_K_XL

Assumptions

• Estimate from memory bandwidth, not a benchmark. Decode speed uses 55–75% of peak bandwidth.
• KV cache is FP16. Engine overhead assumes llama.cpp (0.3 GB + 1% of the weights). Ollama is closer to 0.9 GB + 3%, LM Studio closer to 1 GB + 3%.
• UD-Q5_K_XL size is the real GGUF file size from Hugging Face.
• Unified memory uses 75% for the GPU by default, and always leaves about 5 GB for the OS.
• Speed is quoted at 8K context, not at the maximum context that still fits.

Larger models that also fit

• Can I run Cyber Tiel Coder 35B A3B GGUF MTP on Apple M1 Max? — Tight fit, Q4_K_M, 25–34 tok/s (estimate)
• Can I run Kwaipilot KAT Coder V2.5 Dev on Apple M1 Max? — Tight fit, Q5_K_S, 22–30 tok/s (estimate)
• Can I run Qwen3 Coder Next on Apple M1 Max? — Heavily degraded, UD-IQ2_XXS, 21–29 tok/s (estimate)

Updated 2026-10-24. Profile on this page is the device default.