System · laptop

MacBook Air M4 16 GB

By estimate, runs models up to ~16B parameters at 4-bit in unified memory. Current everyday Mac laptop; 16 GB is the base memory.

Unified memory: 16 GB
System RAM: Shared
Runs: 8 of 19model variants, 8K
Estimated cost: —

Full compatibility

What it runs

Largest models that fit without spilling into system memory, at an 8K contextHow much text the model can consider at once, counted in tokens — roughly ¾ of a word each..

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Variant
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
14.8B · MLX 4-bit via MLX-LM
Tight fit
~9 tok/s estimate
Variant
Phi-4
14.7B · MLX 4-bit via MLX-LM
Tight fit
~9 tok/s estimate
Variant
Gemma 2 9B IT
9.24B · Q4_K_M via llama.cpp
Runs well
~13 tok/s estimate
Variant
Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B
8.03B · Q8_0 via llama.cpp
Tight fit
~9 tok/s estimate
Variant
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8.03B · Q8_0 via llama.cpp
Tight fit
~9 tok/s estimate
Variant
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
7.62B · Q8_0 via llama.cpp
Runs well
~9 tok/s estimate
Variant
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B
7.62B · Q4_K_M via llama.cpp
Runs well
~15 tok/s estimate
Variant
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
7.25B · Q8_0 via llama.cpp
Runs well
~10 tok/s estimate

Components

1× Hardware Apple M4 soc

Measured performance

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