APPLE/ M1
Apple M1 (16GB)
16 GB
VRAM (Mid-range)
68.25 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
191 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (66%)
~9 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Usable)
Model coverage at Q466% of all models
Specifications
VRAM
16 GB
Bandwidth
68.25 GB/s
FP16 Compute
5.2 TFLOPS
TDP
20W
Memory
LPDDR4X
Architecture
M1
MSRP
$699
38
Fast models (>30 tok/s)
Real-time chat speed
74
Usable models (>10 tok/s)
Comfortable for all tasks
191
Total compatible
Fit in VRAM at Q4
Compatible Models(191)
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
6.5
quality
VRAM2%
0.4 GB
489
tok/s
489
tok/s
2% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
7
quality
VRAM2%
0.4 GB
449
tok/s
449
tok/s
2% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM2%
0.3 GB
443
tok/s
443
tok/s
2% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM3%
0.4 GB
181
tok/s
181
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
VRAM3%
0.4 GB
181
tok/s
181
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.9
quality
VRAM3%
0.5 GB
176
tok/s
176
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
8.2
quality
VRAM3%
0.5 GB
169
tok/s
169
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
9.9
quality
VRAM5%
0.8 GB
121
tok/s
121
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
19.4
quality
VRAM5%
0.8 GB
121
tok/s
121
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
VRAM4%
0.6 GB
107
tok/s
107
tok/s
4% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
20.2
quality
VRAM4%
0.6 GB
101
tok/s
101
tok/s
4% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.6
quality
VRAM5%
0.7 GB
78
tok/s
78
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
12.3
quality
VRAM6%
0.9 GB
76
tok/s
76
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
20.5
quality
VRAM6%
1.0 GB
67
tok/s
67
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
42
quality
VRAM6%
1.0 GB
61
tok/s
61
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
VRAM6%
1.0 GB
61
tok/s
61
tok/s
6% VRAM
A
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM7%
1.1 GB
55
tok/s
55
tok/s
7% VRAM
A
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM7%
1.1 GB
55
tok/s
55
tok/s
7% VRAM
A
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
13.6
quality
VRAM7%
1.2 GB
51
tok/s
51
tok/s
7% VRAM
A
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
18.3
quality
VRAM4%
0.7 GB
51
tok/s
51
tok/s
4% VRAM
A
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
16.8
quality
VRAM8%
1.2 GB
47
tok/s
47
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
5.3
quality
VRAM7%
1.2 GB
47
tok/s
47
tok/s
7% VRAM
A
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM8%
1.2 GB
47
tok/s
47
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
7.2
quality
VRAM8%
1.2 GB
47
tok/s
47
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
5.1
quality
VRAM8%
1.3 GB
40
tok/s
40
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
22.8
quality
VRAM8%
1.3 GB
40
tok/s
40
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
22.8
quality
VRAM8%
1.3 GB
40
tok/s
40
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
30.2
quality
VRAM8%
1.3 GB
40
tok/s
40
tok/s
8% VRAM
A
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
14.6
quality
VRAM8%
1.3 GB
40
tok/s
40
tok/s
8% VRAM
B
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
9.5
quality
VRAM9%
1.4 GB
38
tok/s
38
tok/s
9% VRAM
B
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
32.6
quality
VRAM9%
1.4 GB
36
tok/s
36
tok/s
9% VRAM
B
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
16.2
quality
VRAM9%
1.4 GB
35
tok/s
35
tok/s
9% VRAM
B
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
22.8
quality
VRAM9%
1.5 GB
34
tok/s
34
tok/s
9% VRAM
B
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
26.2
quality
VRAM9%
1.4 GB
32
tok/s
32
tok/s
9% VRAM
B
Granite 4.0 Tiny7BMoE
granite125K ctxchatcodingmultilingual
49.2
quality
VRAM28%
4.4 GB
30
tok/s
30
tok/s
28% VRAM
B
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
20.2
quality
VRAM10%
1.6 GB
30
tok/s
30
tok/s
10% VRAM
B
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
35.8
quality
VRAM10%
1.6 GB
30
tok/s
30
tok/s
10% VRAM
B
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
37.8
quality
VRAM10%
1.6 GB
30
tok/s
30
tok/s
10% VRAM
B
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
28.3
quality
VRAM11%
1.7 GB
27
tok/s
27
tok/s
11% VRAM
B
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
15.9
quality
VRAM11%
1.8 GB
26
tok/s
26
tok/s
11% VRAM
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