Yi-Coder 9B on Apple M3 Max · 36GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Yi-Coder 9B @ Q8_0
Yi-Coder 9B 9B at Q8_0 needs ~10.0 GB (weights 8.7 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.1 GB usable (of 36.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~19–30 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 64K · runs to its full 128K
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✓ Q8_010.0 GB~19–30 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q6_K8.0 GB~25–40 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M6.2 GB~30–50 tok/s (fast)
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Yi-Coder 9B: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M3 Max: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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