M3 Ultra 96GB

APPLE · 96GB unified memory · 1 report

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Qwen3.8 125B (6B active) Flash-Next

M3 Ultra 96GB

quant:: UD-IQ4_XS

User compares Mac Studio configs (M5 Ultra 96GB, M5 Max 128GB, M5 Max 64GB) for local LLM use. They discuss Qwen3.8-27B at Q8 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (6B active) at various quants, including Flash-Next on 96GB Ultra with UD-IQ4_XS (93.7GB, 91.1% retention) and on 128GB Max with UD-Q4_K_XL (111GB, 93.5% retention), with the N-gram layer offloaded to SSD. User asks for advice on bandwidth versus quant tier, and whether to just get the 64GB box. No actual benchmark numbers are reported.