Can Mac Studio M2 Max 96 GB run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B?

96 GB unified · 400 GB/s memory bandwidth · Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B has 74B parameters (9B active per token).

Short answer

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

Best quantization for chat: 4-bit (39 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 35–45 tok/s, leaving about 46 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	4-bit	35–45 tok/s	≈2 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Excellent	4-bit	35–45 tok/s	≈10 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Acceptable	4-bit	35–45 tok/s	≈30 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Acceptable	4-bit	35–45 tok/s	≈40 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Comfortable	4-bit	30–45 tok/s	≈2 min	64K	Details

Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate

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Different tool, context size or workload?

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