Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 256GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 512GB
Neither box holds DeepSeek-V3 at Q6_K. The largest quant that fits is Q5_K_M, on Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 512GB.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −304GB
- −48GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $9,499 at Apple
- no price yet
- Per GB of memory
- $37
- —
- Memory
- 256GB unified memory
- 512GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 248GB
- 504GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.2TB/s
- 1.2TB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $9,499 in 2d
- none yet
Fit, headroom and speed are computed from each vendor’s published bandwidth and the model’s own size at 8K context. Prices are the cheapest listing we could read on each seller’s page. The arithmetic is here.
Where they actually differ
- Qwen3-235B-A22BFitsFits
- DeepSeek-V3Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-3.3-70BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-120bFitsFits
- Mistral-Large-2411FitsFits
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EFitsFits
- Qwen3-32BFitsFits
- Gemma-3-27BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-20bFitsFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitFits
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
Every model we track at Q6_K. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.