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Apple · Apple Silicon

Apple M1 (8-core GPU, 8GB unified)

for example MacBook Air (2020), MacBook Pro 13-inch (2020), Mac mini (2020)

Runs 61 models fully in memory, 15 more with CPU offload.

Memory

8 GB

Bandwidth

68 GB/s

Runs

61

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Specifications

Memory

8 GB

Bandwidth

68 GB/s

FP16 compute

5.2 TFLOPS

TDP

15 W

MSRP

—

Street price

—

Released

Nov 17, 2020

Architecture

M1

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What it runs

Best quant per model — sorted by fit score.

ModelParamsBest quantContextSpeedVerdict

Niagara 19m Batch.en20MQ4_K_M~262K3926 tok/sestFits in memory Niagara 38m Batch.en38MQ5_K_M~262K1761 tok/sestFits in memory Audio8 ASR 0.1B0.3BQ8_0~262K149 tok/sestFits in memory Hubert Large Ls960 ft0.3BQ8_0~262K140 tok/sestFits in memory Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 Self0.3BQ5_K_M~262K209 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 180m Flash0.2BQ4_K_M~262K436 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K123 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K131 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K131 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K131 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT CTC 110m0.1BQ4_K_M~262K714 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v20.6BQ4_K_M~262K131 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v30.6BQ4_K_M~262K131 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ5_K_M~262K231 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ4_K_M~262K271 tok/sestFits in memory ASR Conformer Largescaleasr0.5BQ4_K_M~262K164 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Medium0.2BQ5_K_M~262K279 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Small0.1BQ4_K_M~131K785 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Tiny30MQ5_K_M~262K2231 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Tiny30MQ4_K_M~262K2617 tok/sestFits in memory Distil Large v3.50.8BQ4_K_M~131K98 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v3 Turbo0.8BQ4_K_M~131K98 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B0.8BQ4_K_M~262K101 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HF0.8BQ4_K_M~33K98 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1B1BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v4 1B1BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory MMS 1b All1BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b1BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b Flash1BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b v21BQ4_K_M~131K79 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Diarize0.9BQ4_K_M~33K87 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.1 1B1.1BQ4_K_M~131K71 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~131K71 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~131K71 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~131K71 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 0.6B1.3BQ4_K_M~262K60 tok/sestFits in memory Lite Whisper Large v3 Acc1.4BQ4_K_M~131K56 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1.2BQ4_K_M33K65 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v31.5BQ4_K_M~131K52 tok/sestFits in memory Nyra Health CrisperWhisper1.6BQ4_K_M~131K49 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B2BQ4_K_M~131K39 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HF2BQ4_K_M~131K39 tok/sestFits in memory Cohere Transcribe 03 20262.1BQ4_K_M~66K37 tok/sestFits in memory STT 2.6b en2.6BQ4_K_M~66K30 tok/sestFits in memory Canary Qwen 2.5b2.6BQ4_K_M~66K30 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2BQ4_K_M66K25 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 1b Speech2.3BQ4_K_M~33K34 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b2.3BQ4_K_M~33K34 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b NAR2.3BQ4_K_M~33K34 tok/sestFits in memory GLM ASR Nano 25122.3BQ4_K_M~33K34 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 3.3 2b3BQ4_K_M~33K26 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 Micro3.2BQ4_K_M33K21 tok/sestFits in memory Gemma 3 4B4.3BQ4_K_M33K18 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 3B4.1BQ4_K_M~33K19 tok/sestFits in memory Higgs Audio v3 STT2.7BQ4_K_M~16K29 tok/sestFits in memory Hojo ASR V15.2BQ4_K_M~33K15 tok/sestFits in memory Voxtral Mini 3B 25075BQ4_K_M~33K16 tok/sestFits in memory Ministral 3 3B 25123.8BQ4_K_M16K21 tok/sestFits in memory Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 26024.4BQ4_K_M~16K18 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Preview 2B2.4BQ4_K_M~4K33 tok/sestFits in memory

A speed marked est is calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of the weights it has to read per word. It is not a measurement.

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