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Apple M5 (10-core GPU)

for example MacBook Pro 14-inch (2025)

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

154 GB/s

Runs

111

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Specifications

Memory

32 GB

Bandwidth

154 GB/s

FP16 compute

11.5 TFLOPS

TDP

22 W

MSRP

—

Street price

—

Released

Oct 15, 2025

Architecture

M5

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What it runs

Best quant per model — sorted by fit score.

ModelParamsBest quantContextSpeedVerdict

Niagara 19m Batch.en20MQ8_0~262K5060 tok/sestFits in memory Niagara 38m Batch.en38MQ5_K_M~262K3978 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 0.6B1.3BQ4_K_M~262K136 tok/sestFits in memory Audio8 ASR 0.1B0.3BQ5_K_M~262K504 tok/sestFits in memory Distil Large v3.50.8BQ4_K_M~262K222 tok/sestFits in memory Lite Whisper Large v3 Acc1.4BQ4_K_M~262K127 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.1 1B1.1BQ4_K_M~262K161 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1B1BQ4_K_M~262K177 tok/sestFits in memory Owsm CTC v4 1B1BQ5_K_M~262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Hubert Large Ls960 ft0.3BQ8_0~262K316 tok/sestFits in memory MMS 1b All1BQ4_K_M~262K177 tok/sestFits in memory Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 Self0.3BQ5_K_M~262K472 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 180m Flash0.2BQ8_0~262K562 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b1BQ4_K_M~262K177 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b Flash1BQ4_K_M~262K177 tok/sestFits in memory Canary 1b v21BQ5_K_M~262K151 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K158 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6b0.6BQ8_0~262K169 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 0.6b0.6BQ5_K_M~262K252 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet CTC 1.1b1.1BQ5_K_M~262K137 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 0.6b0.6BQ4_K_M~262K296 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet RNNT 1.1b1.1BQ5_K_M~262K137 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT CTC 110m0.1BQ8_0~262K920 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v20.6BQ5_K_M~262K252 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 0.6b v30.6BQ8_0~262K169 tok/sestFits in memory Parakeet TDT 1.1b1.1BQ5_K_M~262K137 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v31.5BQ4_K_M~262K118 tok/sestFits in memory Whisper Large v3 Turbo0.8BQ8_0~262K127 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Diarize0.9BQ5_K_M~131K168 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B0.8BQ5_K_M~262K194 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HF0.8BQ5_K_M~131K189 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ5_K_M~262K521 tok/sestFits in memory Zipformer Transducer XL 290M0.3BQ8_0~262K349 tok/sestFits in memory ASR Conformer Largescaleasr0.5BQ5_K_M~262K315 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Medium0.2BQ5_K_M~262K630 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Small0.1BQ8_0~262K1012 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Streaming Tiny30MQ8_0~262K3373 tok/sestFits in memory Moonshine Tiny30MQ8_0~262K3373 tok/sestFits in memory Nyra Health CrisperWhisper1.6BQ4_K_M~262K111 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1.2BQ5_K_M33K126 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B2BQ4_K_M~262K87 tok/sestFits in memory Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HF2BQ4_K_M~262K87 tok/sestFits in memory Cohere Transcribe 03 20262.1BQ4_K_M~262K85 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 1b Speech2.3BQ4_K_M~131K77 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b2.3BQ4_K_M~131K77 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 4.1 2b NAR2.3BQ4_K_M~131K77 tok/sestFits in memory GLM ASR Nano 25122.3BQ4_K_M~262K77 tok/sestFits in memory STT 2.6b en2.6BQ4_K_M~262K68 tok/sestFits in memory Canary Qwen 2.5b2.6BQ4_K_M~262K68 tok/sestFits in memory Higgs Audio v3 STT2.7BQ4_K_M~131K66 tok/sestFits in memory Granite Speech 3.3 2b3BQ4_K_M~131K59 tok/sestFits in memory MOSS Transcribe Preview 2B2.4BQ4_K_M~33K74 tok/sestFits in memory Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2BQ4_K_M131K55 tok/sestFits in memory Ministral 3 3B 25123.8BQ4_K_M131K47 tok/sestFits in memory Granite 4.0 Micro3.2BQ4_K_M66K47 tok/sestFits in memory ARK ASR 3B4.1BQ4_K_M~262K43 tok/sestFits in memory Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B31.6BQ4_K_M33K50 tok/sestFits in memory Gemma 3 4B4.3BQ4_K_M131K41 tok/sestFits in memory Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 26024.4BQ4_K_M~131K40 tok/sestFits in memory Hojo ASR V15.2BQ4_K_M~262K34 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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