Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B on a Dedicated Mac

Macs that run NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B

At 4-bit with a 32K-token context. Speeds are estimates; see real measurements on the calculator page.

• Mac Mini M5 Pro 64GB Best value
  25–34 tokens/sec
  from $299/mo
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• Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
  41–57 tokens/sec
  from $499/mo
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• Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB
  46–63 tokens/sec
  from $569/mo Available Nov 10, 2026
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• Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB
  81–105 tokens/sec
  from $1,199/mo Available Nov 16, 2026
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• 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB Cluster Cluster
  70–87 tokens/sec
  from $2,399/mo Available Nov 16, 2026
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• Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB
  81–105 tokens/sec
  from $2,499/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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• 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Cluster
  70–87 tokens/sec
  from $4,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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• 4× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Cluster
  54–65 tokens/sec
  from $9,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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Why it runs well on a Mac

Language models have to sit entirely in memory, and generating each word means reading through them again. Apple Silicon puts up to 512 GB of fast unified memory on one chip that the GPU can use directly, so a model like this fits on one quiet machine instead of a stack of graphics cards.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B is a mixture-of-experts model: of its 74 billion parameters, only about 9 billion are used for each word. It needs memory for all of them but runs at the speed of a much smaller model.