Summary
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.