FitMyLLM
APPLE/ M1

Apple M1 (8GB)

8 GB
VRAM (Entry-level)
68 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
147 / 290
Models fit at Q4 (51%)
~9 tok/s
7B Q4 speed (Usable)
Model coverage at Q451% of all models

Specifications

VRAM
8 GB
Bandwidth
68 GB/s
FP16 Compute
2.6 TFLOPS
TDP
20W
Memory
Unified
Architecture
M1
MSRP
$499
38
Fast models (>30 tok/s)
Real-time chat speed
71
Usable models (>10 tok/s)
Comfortable for all tasks
147
Total compatible
Fit in VRAM at Q4

Compatible Models(147)

S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
gpt21K ctxchat
487
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
smollm2K ctxchat
448
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Nomic Embed Text v1.50.137B
embedding8K ctxembedding
441
tok/s
3% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
180
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
embedding1K ctxembedding
180
tok/s
5% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
gpt21K ctxchat
175
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
smollm8K ctxchat
168
tok/s
6% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
121
tok/s
10% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
qwen32K ctxchat
121
tok/s
10% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
embedding8K ctxembedding
106
tok/s
8% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
101
tok/s
8% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
gpt21K ctxchat
78
tok/s
9% VRAM
S
Qwen3-0.6B0.8B
qwen40K ctxchat
76
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
qwen256K ctxchat
67
tok/s
12% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
falcon32K ctxchat
60
tok/s
13% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
internlm32K ctxchat
60
tok/s
13% VRAM
A
TinyLlama-1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
55
tok/s
14% VRAM
A
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
llama2K ctxchat
55
tok/s
14% VRAM
A
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
llama4K ctxchat
50
tok/s
15% VRAM
A
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
lfm122K ctxchatreasoningtool_use
50
tok/s
9% VRAM
A
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
deepseek16K ctxcoding
46
tok/s
15% VRAM
A
OPT 1.3B1.3B
opt2K ctxchat
46
tok/s
15% VRAM
A
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxcoding
46
tok/s
15% VRAM
A
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
phi2K ctxchatcoding
46
tok/s
15% VRAM
A
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
gpt21K ctxchat
40
tok/s
16% VRAM
A
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxcodingchat
40
tok/s
17% VRAM
A
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
qwen4K ctxreasoning
40
tok/s
17% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
qwen32K ctxchatcoding
40
tok/s
17% VRAM
A
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
yi125K ctxcoding
40
tok/s
17% VRAM
B
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
stablelm4K ctxchat
38
tok/s
17% VRAM
B
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
qwen32K ctxchatreasoning
36
tok/s
17% VRAM
B
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
smollm8K ctxchat
35
tok/s
18% VRAM
B
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
qwen32K ctxchat
34
tok/s
19% VRAM
B
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
other2K ctxvisionchat
32
tok/s
17% VRAM
B
Granite 4.0 Tiny7BMoE
granite125K ctxchatcodingmultilingual
30
tok/s
55% VRAM
B
Gemma 1 2B2B
gemma8K ctxchat
30
tok/s
20% VRAM
B
Granite 3.0 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
30
tok/s
20% VRAM
B
Granite 3.1 2B2B
granite128K ctxchatcoding
30
tok/s
20% VRAM
B
Qwen2-VL 2B2.21B
qwen32K ctxchatvision
27
tok/s
21% VRAM
B
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B
qwen256K ctxchat
26
tok/s
22% VRAM

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