| quant | needs | speed |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ Q8_0 | 10.0 GB | ~40–65 tok/s (very fast) |
| ✓ Q6_K | 8.0 GB | ~50–80 tok/s (very fast) |
| ✓ Q4_K_M | 6.2 GB | ~65–110 tok/s (very fast) |
Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro
Also runs on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3
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These share Yi-Coder 9B's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM too:
| model | shares | verdict here |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-Coder | 4kv/128hd | ✅ Runs (tight) |
| StarCoder2 | 4kv/128hd | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| Yi 1.5 | 4kv/128hd | ✅ Runs (tight) |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | 4kv/128hd | ✅ Runs (tight) |
| SmolLM3 3B | 4kv/128hd | ✅ Runs comfortably |
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