Nomic Embed Text on Apple M1 · 8GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Nomic Embed Text 137M @ F16
Nomic Embed Text 137M at F16 needs ~1.0 GB (weights 261 MB + KV 288 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 2.9 GB usable (of 8.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~75–120 tok/s (very fast).
context @ F16: comfortable to 8K
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✓ F161.0 GB~75–120 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q8_0939 MB~95–160 tok/s (very fast)
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Nomic Embed Text: Runs comfortably
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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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