Can MacBook Pro M5 Max 48 GB run LFM2.5 24B-A2B?

48 GB unified · 614 GB/s memory bandwidth · LFM2.5 24B-A2B has 24B parameters (2B active per token).

Short answer

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

Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (14 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 180–300 tok/s, leaving about 25 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	180–300 tok/s	under 1 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Excellent	Q4_K_M	170–280 tok/s	under 1 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Comfortable	Q8_0	90–150 tok/s	≈2 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Comfortable	Q8_0	90–150 tok/s	≈2 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Excellent	Q8_0	70–120 tok/s	≈6 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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