Falcon3 7B on Apple M1 · 8GB

🐢 CPU-only (slow) — Falcon3 7B @ Q6_K
Falcon3 7B 7B at Q6_K needs ~7.1 GB (weights 5.7 GB + KV 896 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 2.9 GB usable (of 8.0 GB unified memory) — runs on CPU only. Expect ~0.7–1 tok/s (slow).
context @ Q6_K: runs to 8K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✗ Q8_08.8 GB—
~ Q6_K7.1 GB~0.7–1 tok/s (slow)
~ Q5_K_M6.3 GB~0.8–1 tok/s (slow)
~ Q4_K_M5.6 GB~0.9–2 tok/s (slow)
$runlocal install falcon3:7b
runlocal verdict card
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Falcon3 7B: CPU-only (slow)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M1: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Llama 3.2 · Gemma 2

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These share Falcon3 7B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a Apple M1 · 8GB too:

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