Can I run Yi 1.5?

01.AI's bilingual models, strong at reasoning and code for their size.

chatgeneralreasoning · sizes: 6B, 9B, 34B · Apache-2.0

What runs it

machinebest fitverdictspeed
Apple M1 · 8GB 9B Q5_K_M 🐢 CPU-only (slow) 0.7–1 tok/s
Apple M1 Pro · 16GB 9B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 15–25 tok/s
Apple M2 · 16GB 9B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 8–14 tok/s
Apple M3 Pro · 18GB 9B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 12–20 tok/s
Apple M2 Pro · 32GB 34B Q3_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 6–9 tok/s
Apple M4 Pro · 48GB 34B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs comfortably 5–9 tok/s
Apple M3 Max · 36GB 34B Q3_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 10–16 tok/s
Apple M2 Max · 64GB 34B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 5–8 tok/s
Apple M4 Max · 128GB 34B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 6–10 tok/s
Apple M2 Ultra · 192GB 34B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 7–11 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM 9B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 15–25 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 · 12GB VRAM 9B Q8_0 ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 · 24GB VRAM 34B Q3_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM 9B Q8_0 ✅ Runs comfortably 40–70 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 · 32GB VRAM 34B Q5_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 30–45 tok/s
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM 34B Q3_K_M ✅ Runs (tight) 20–35 tok/s

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Architectural kin

23 models share Yi 1.5's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so a rig that fits one tends to fit its same-size kin.

…and 11 more.

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