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Can the Apple M1 Pro run qwen3 1.7B?

FULL

1.8 GB needed of 14 GB usable — headroom for context

~14GB usable · Apple M1 Pro · model file 1.4GB · 1.7B

~79–110 tok/s

computed roofline: 200 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 1.4GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run qwen3 1.7B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 1.7B fully ($110)

every model the Apple M1 Pro can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the Apple M1 Pro · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory