Compatibility check
Can I run Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct on Apple M1 (8-core GPU, 8GB unified)?
Partially — with CPU offload.best quant:
5.6 GB of weights, plus 1.7 GB for the software that runs it and the smallest conversation it can hold, comes to 7.3 GB against the 6 GB this 8 GB device leaves free.
Decode speed
—
Usable context
—
Memory
8 GB
Spills to system RAM
Spills to system RAM
Too large
Plan B — rent it
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