Can 2x Apple M5 Ultra run Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Q: Can 2x Apple M5 Ultra run Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Yes. Measured 13.69 tok/s generation on 2x Apple M5 Ultra, via MLX, 2-node tensor parallel, FP8, 8,192-token context. Source: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference

Yes. Measured 13.69 tok/s generation (MLX, 2-node tensor parallel, FP8, 8,192-token context; source).

Every measured result for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B on 2x Apple M5 Ultra

Build	Quant / setup	Engine	tok/s
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra cluster (Thunderbolt 5 RDMA): Muse Spark Open 816B	FP8, 8,192-token context	MLX, 2-node tensor parallel	13.69	source

Speeds are decode (generation) tokens/sec as reported by each source; quant, engine and context differ, so small gaps are noise.

All measured speeds for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B: best home rig for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B on other hardware: 4x Apple M5 Ultra · Apple M3 Ultra · Apple M5 Ultra

Other models measured on 2x Apple M5 Ultra: Muse Spark Open 816B-A42B · Qwen3.8 27B

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