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Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence.

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28 ranked MacsUse the strongest current runtime evidence for each row.Static paths cover only canonical model pages; sort and quantization stay as query state.

Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	387	8bit	43.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Measured	$7,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 43.0 tok/s is directly measured here. 141.1 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	371	8bit	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$6,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 77.1 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	322	Q6_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$4,499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 33.6 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	322	Q6_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$5,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 33.6 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	306	Q5	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,999	Q5 is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 23.7 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	263	Q3_K_L	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	Q3_K_L is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 11.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	263	Q3_K_L	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$4,499	Q3_K_L is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 11.2 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
8	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,599	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
9	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,499	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
10	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,499	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
11	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
12	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,499	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
13	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	261	Q2_K	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,999	Q2_K is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 9.4 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
14	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	258	IQ2_XS	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$1,999	IQ2_XS is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
15	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	258	IQ2_XS	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$2,999	IQ2_XS is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
16	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	258	IQ2_XS	57.0 tok/s	MLX	Fits	Estimated	$3,499	IQ2_XS is the current best practical quantization. 57.0 tok/s is estimated from nearby benchmark coverage. 6.3 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
17	Mac Mini M4 16GB	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$499	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on Mac Mini M4 16GB at the current practical quantization.
18	Mac Mini M4 24GB	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$599	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on Mac Mini M4 24GB at the current practical quantization.
19	Mac Mini M4 32GB	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$799	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on Mac Mini M4 32GB at the current practical quantization.
20	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,099	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
21	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,299	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
22	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,299	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
23	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,399	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB at the current practical quantization.
24	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,499	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch at the current practical quantization.
25	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,499	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
26	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,699	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch at the current practical quantization.
27	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$1,999	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch at the current practical quantization.
28	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	0	F32	—	MLX	No	Estimated	$2,499	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does not fit on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch at the current practical quantization.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B — ranking first, raw rows below

Start with the ranked Mac table above. Use the rest of this page to inspect raw Apple Silicon coverage and model metadata.

Quantizations observed: 4bit, MXFP4, 8bit, IQ1_M

6Benchmark rows

3Chip tiers covered

65.8Fastest avg tok/s (M5 Max (128 GB))

40.8 GBMinimum RAM observed

What this page answers best

Fastest published result is 65.9 tok/s on M5 Max (128 GB) at 4bit. Smallest published fit is 40.8 GB on M5 Pro (64 GB). Longest published context on this page is 33k. Published runtimes include llama.cpp, MLX. Start with Rankings for the decision, then use the raw rows below to audit the evidence.

Evidence state: 6 linked reference rows and no Silicon Score Lab rows yet.

Published runtimes here: llama.cpp, MLX.

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Catalog record

122BTotal params

10BActive params

262,144Context window

2026-02-24Release date

What this model is, and what Apple Silicon users are actually seeing

Official model cards tell you what the model is for and which software stacks it targets. Field reality below shows how much Apple Silicon evidence we have so far.

Official brief

Unified Vision-Language Foundation: Early fusion training on multimodal tokens achieves cross-generational parity with Qwen3 and outperforms Qwen3-VL models across reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding benchmarks.

Official source · Raw model card

agentscodingreasoningvisual-understanding

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMSGLangTransformersKTransformers

Official takeaways

Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder.
Scale: 122B in total and 10B activated.
Context: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens..
Unified Vision-Language Foundation: Early fusion training on multimodal tokens achieves cross-generational parity with Qwen3 and outperforms Qwen3-VL models across reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding ben…

Official model cards describe intent, capabilities, and supported stacks. They do not prove Apple Silicon speed by themselves.

Field reality on Apple Silicon

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: 4 Apple Silicon field reports; best reported generation ~65.9 tok/s; best reported prompt processing ~500 tok/s; seen on MacBook Pro M5 MAX 128GB, Mac Studio M3 ULTRA 256GB, MacBook Pro M5 PRO 64GB; via MLX, llama.cpp.

6Benchmark rows

4Field reports

6Practitioner signals

Sparse BenchmarksEvidence status

What practitioners keep saying

The thread frames 122B as a practical daily driver on top-end Apple laptops, not just a model that barely loads.
Reported gains versus the smaller 35B MoE are tied to real browser and vision task quality, which matters for frontier ranking.
The posted mlx_lm measurements report roughly 65.9 tok/s at 4K context and about 54.9 tok/s at 32K context for the 4-bit 122B-A10B model.

Runtime mentions in the field

Claude CodeContinuellama.cppLM StudioMLXOpenClaw

Hardware mentioned in reports

64GB96GB128GBM3 UltraM4MacMac StudioMacBook

What would improve confidence

Capture Practitioner Runtime Notes
Queue Lab Verification If Hardware Available
Reproduce Field Performance Signal
Resolve Blocked Source Capture

Current published coverage

Published chip coverage includes M5 Max (128 GB), M3 Ultra (256 GB), M5 Pro (64 GB). Fastest published row is 65.9 tok/s on M5 Max (128 GB) at 4bit. Lowest published RAM requirement is 40.8 GB on M5 Pro (64 GB). Catalog context window is 33k.

M5 Max (128 GB)M3 Ultra (256 GB)M5 Pro (64 GB)

Related Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models with published pages: Qwen3.5-27B · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B · Qwen3.5-9B · Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

Standardized eval scorecards for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

These are fixed-machine model scorecards from a single Apple Silicon setup. They help explain whether a model is merely fast or actually good at tools, coding, reasoning, and general tasks. They do not replace the main Mac ranking above.

mxfp4 · vLLM-MLX

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB · Avg 88%

90%Tools

90%Coding

80%Reasoning

90%General

Speed and memory

Long decode: 57.0 tok/s
Short decode: 26.3 tok/s
Cold TTFT: 0.714 s
Active RAM: 65.0 GB

The best value version in this scorecard: near-frontier quality at roughly half the RAM.

vLLM-MLX SCORECARD.md · discussion · 2026-03-04

8bit · vLLM-MLX

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB · Avg 89%

87%Tools

90%Coding

90%Reasoning

90%General

Speed and memory

Long decode: 42.7 tok/s
Short decode: 19.4 tok/s
Cold TTFT: 1.300 s
Active RAM: 129.8 GB

Highest overall quality in this standardized set, but it demands real memory.

vLLM-MLX SCORECARD.md · discussion · 2026-03-04

Raw benchmark rows for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Rows stay below the ranking because this page is answer-first. Use them to inspect exact chips, quantizations, runtimes, and sources.

Chip	Quant	RAM req.	Context	Avg tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Runtime	Source
M5 Max (128 GB)	4bit	71.9 GB	4k	65.9 tok/s	881.5 tok/s	MLX	ref
M5 Max (128 GB)	4bit	73.8 GB	16k	60.6 tok/s	1239.7 tok/s	MLX	ref
M3 Ultra (256 GB)	MXFP4	65.0 GB	—	57.0 tok/s	—	MLX	ref
M5 Max (128 GB)	4bit	76.4 GB	33k	54.9 tok/s	1067.8 tok/s	MLX	ref
M3 Ultra (256 GB)	8bit	129.8 GB	—	43.0 tok/s	—	MLX	ref
M5 Pro (64 GB)	IQ1_M	40.8 GB	—	18.0 tok/s	—	llama.cpp	ref

Chips with published results for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

M5 Max (128 GB)M3 Ultra (256 GB)M5 Pro (64 GB)

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