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Apple M4 (10-core GPU)

for example MacBook Air (2025), MacBook Pro 14-inch (2024), Mac mini (2024), iMac (2024)

Runs 111 models fully in memory, 5 more with CPU offload. 4 of those sit close enough to 32 GB that our size estimate is what decides them.

Memory

32 GB

Bandwidth

120 GB/s

Runs

111

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Specifications

Memory

32 GB

Bandwidth

120 GB/s

FP16 compute

8.5 TFLOPS

TDP

22 W

MSRP

—

Street price

—

Released

May 7, 2024

Architecture

M4

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What it runs

Best quant per model — sorted by fit score.

ModelParamsBest quantContextSpeedVerdict

Niagara 19m Batch.en20MQ8_0~262K3953 tok/sestFits in memory Niagara 38m Batch.en38MQ5_K_M~262K3108 tok/sestFits in memory Audio8 ASR 0.1B0.3BQ5_K_M~262K394 tok/sestFits in memory Distil Large v3.50.8BQ4_K_M~262K173 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.1 1B1.1BQ4_K_M~262K126 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1B1BQ4_K_M~262K139 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v4 1B1BQ5_K_M~262K118 tok/sestFits in memory Hubert Large Ls960 ft0.3BQ8_0~262K247 tok/sestFits in memory MMS 1b All1BQ4_K_M~262K139 tok/sestFits in memory Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 Self0.3BQ5_K_M~262K369 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 180m Flash0.2BQ8_0~262K439 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b1BQ4_K_M~262K139 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b Flash1BQ4_K_M~262K139 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b v21BQ5_K_M~262K118 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K124 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K132 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 0.6b0.6BQ5_K_M~262K197 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~262K126 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K231 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~262K126 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT CTC 110m0.1BQ8_0~262K719 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v20.6BQ5_K_M~262K197 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v30.6BQ8_0~262K132 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 1.1b1.1BQ4_K_M~262K126 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v3 Turbo0.8BQ4_K_M~262K173 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Diarize0.9BQ5_K_M~131K131 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B0.8BQ5_K_M~262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HF0.8BQ5_K_M~131K148 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ5_K_M~262K407 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ5_K_M~262K407 tok/sestFits in memory ASR Conformer Largescaleasr0.5BQ4_K_M~262K289 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Medium0.2BQ8_0~262K329 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Small0.1BQ5_K_M~262K1181 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Tiny30MQ5_K_M~262K3937 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Tiny30MQ5_K_M~262K3937 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 0.6B1.3BQ4_K_M~262K107 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1.2BQ4_K_M33K116 tok/sestFits in memory Lite Whisper Large v3 Acc1.4BQ4_K_M~262K99 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v31.5BQ4_K_M~262K92 tok/sestFits in memory Nyra Health CrisperWhisper1.6BQ4_K_M~262K87 tok/sestFits in memory Cohere Transcribe 03 20262.1BQ4_K_M~262K66 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B2BQ4_K_M~262K68 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HF2BQ4_K_M~262K68 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 1b Speech2.3BQ4_K_M~131K60 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b2.3BQ4_K_M~131K60 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b NAR2.3BQ4_K_M~131K60 tok/sestFits in memory GLM ASR Nano 25122.3BQ4_K_M~262K60 tok/sestFits in memory Higgs Audio v3 STT2.7BQ4_K_M~131K51 tok/sestFits in memory STT 2.6b en2.6BQ4_K_M~262K53 tok/sestFits in memory Canary Qwen 2.5b2.6BQ4_K_M~262K53 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 3.3 2b3BQ4_K_M~131K46 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2BQ4_K_M131K43 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Preview 2B2.4BQ4_K_M~33K58 tok/sestFits in memory Ministral 3 3B 25123.8BQ4_K_M131K37 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 Micro3.2BQ4_K_M66K37 tok/sestFits in memory Gemma 3 4B4.3BQ4_K_M131K32 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 3B4.1BQ4_K_M~262K34 tok/sestFits in memory Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 26024.4BQ4_K_M~131K32 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B31.6BQ4_K_M33K39 tok/sestFits in memory Hojo ASR V15.2BQ4_K_M~262K27 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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