APPLE· APPLE GPU 5-CORE

Apple A15 GPU 5-core

VRAM
6 GB
BUDGET
BANDWIDTH
34.1
GB/S
MODELS Q4
194/428
45%
7B Q4 SPEED
~4
SLOW
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q445% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~10
TOK/S
7B
~4
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
6 GB
BANDWIDTH
34.1 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
1.5 TFLOPS
TDP
6W
MEMORY
Shared
ARCHITECTURE
Apple GPU 5-core
30
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
87
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
194
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 194
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
337
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
303
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
244
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
225
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
118
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
112
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
99
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
90
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
90
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
90
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
88
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
87
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
84
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
61
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
61
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
61
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
61
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
A
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
53
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
53
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
51
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
51
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
51
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
51
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
A
LFM2 700M0.7B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
43
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
B
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
39
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
B
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
38
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
B
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
34
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
B
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
30
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
B
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
30
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
B
InternVL3 1B1B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
30
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
B
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
28
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
B
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
25
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
B
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
25
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
B
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
25
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
B
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
25
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
C
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
23
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
C
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
23
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
C
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
23
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
C
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
23
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
C
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
23
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
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Apple A15 GPU 5-core6 GB VRAM.

APPLE A15 GPU 5-CORE SPEC
BRAND
Apple
VRAM
6 GB Shared
BANDWIDTH
34.1 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
1.5 TFLOPS
TDP
6 W
ARCHITECTURE
Apple GPU 5-core
▸ AI CAPABILITY
194/ 428 models @ Q4

With 6 GB VRAM and 34.1 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 8B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~4 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR APPLE A15 GPU 5-CORE
194 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Aya Expanse 8B8B5.4 GB427.8
Cogito 8B8B5.4 GB417.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8B5.4 GB436.2
Gemma 3n E4B8B5.4 GB428.8
Granite 3.3 8B8B5.4 GB424.6
Llama-3.1-8B8B5.4 GB423.5
Dolphin Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB423.8
Llama 3 8B8B5.4 GB437.3
Tulu 3 8B8B5.4 GB431.5
Ministral-8B8B5.4 GB419.3
Nemotron-H 8B8B5.4 GB478.4
Granite 8B8B5.4 GB426.1
InternVL2 8B8B5.4 GB444.6
MiniCPM-V 2.6 8B8B5.4 GB440.8
RNJ-1 8B8B5.4 GB453.5
Gemma 4 E4B8B5.4 GB432.1
InternLM3 8B Instruct8B5.4 GB438.7
Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct8B5.4 GB426.4
Qwen3-Embedding 8B8B5.4 GB4
Granite 4.1 8B8B5.4 GB425.1