Can MacBook Pro M5 Pro 64 GB run Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B)?

64 GB unified · 307 GB/s memory bandwidth · Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B) has 78.1B parameters (3.46B active per token).

Short answer

Yes, excellent for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.

Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (45 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 55–90 tok/s, leaving about 8.4 GB free for your other apps.

How it rates for each workload

Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.

Workload	Verdict	Quant	Generation	First reply	Context
Chatwith Open WebUI	Excellent	Q4_K_M	55–90 tok/s	under 1 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Comfortable	Q4_K_M	50–85 tok/s	≈2 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	45–75 tok/s	≈5 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	45–75 tok/s	≈7 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	35–60 tok/s	≈20 s	64K	Details

Speeds are bandwidth-based estimates; no direct benchmark exists for this pair. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate

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