Can Mac Studio M5 Max 128 GB run Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B?

128 GB unified · 614 GB/s memory bandwidth · Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B has 120B parameters (12B active per token).

Short answer

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

Best quantization for chat: MXFP4 (60 GB of weights) on vLLM. Generation: 30–50 tok/s, leaving about 56 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	MXFP4	30–50 tok/s	≈2 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Excellent	MXFP4	30–50 tok/s	≈10 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Comfortable	MXFP4	30–50 tok/s	≈35 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Acceptable	MXFP4	30–50 tok/s	≈50 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Comfortable	MXFP4	30–45 tok/s	≈2 min	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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Different tool, context size or workload?

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