What Can the Apple M1 Run?

16 GB · compatibility with 168 AI models

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Short answer: the Apple M1 (16 GB) can run 165 of 168 AI image, video, 3D and audio models we track. Unified memory, base config.

S Perfect	A Great	B Good	C Usable	D Barely	F Can't Run
13 models	0 models	0 models	36 models	49 models	70 models

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Apple M1 specs for AI

Brand	Apple
Series	M1
VRAM	16 GB
Architecture	m1
FP16 compute	2.6 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth	68 GB/s
Released	2020

AI models on the Apple M1

Each model uses the best format that fits in 16 GB. How ratings work.

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Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
Stable Diffusion 1.5	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 1.4	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 2.1	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 2.0	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
PixArt-Alpha 600M	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Slow
SDXL Base 1.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
SDXL Turbo	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Animagine XL 3.1	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Pony Diffusion v6 XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
NoobAI XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Juggernaut XL Ragnarok	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
SDXL Lightning 4-step	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
DreamShaper XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Illustrious XL v1.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Playground v2.5 2.6B	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
RealVisXL v5.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Epicrealism XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
PixArt-Sigma 900M	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (2B)	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
SDXL Hyper 1-step	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (2.5B)	C Usable	FP16	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanDiT 1.5B	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Z-Image Turbo	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
FLUX.2 Klein 9B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	5 GB	Slow
Chroma1 HD	D Barely	GGUF Q4	5 GB	Slow
Ideogram 4.0	D Barely	GGUF Q4	6 GB	Slow
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (8B)	D Barely	GGUF Q4	7 GB	Slow
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo	D Barely	GGUF Q4	7 GB	Slow
FLUX.1 Krea Dev	D Barely	GGUF Q4	7 GB	Slow
Krea 2 Turbo	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
MOSS-Image 5B	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Dev 12B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Schnell 12B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Lite	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
HunyuanImage 3.0	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
AuraFlow 0.3	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
Flux.2 Klein 4B	F Can't Run	FP16	13 GB	Slow
Qwen-Image 2.1	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
Z-Image Base	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
Ming-Image 0.1 Design	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
Kolors	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
Qwen-Image 2512 (20B)	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Very Slow
Flux.2 Dev 32B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q3	14 GB	Very Slow
ERNIE-Image 8B	F Can't Run	FP16	16 GB	Slow
HiDream-O1-Image 8.8B	F Can't Run	FP16	16 GB	Slow
Seedream 3.0	F Can't Run	FP16	16 GB	Slow
GLM-Image	F Can't Run	FP16	16 GB	Slow

Image to Image

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
SD 1.5 img2img	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
InstructPix2Pix	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
SDXL img2img	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
IP-Adapter SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Slow
IP-Adapter FaceID SDXL	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
Mage-Flow 4B	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
Boogu-Image Edit	D Barely	GGUF Q4	6 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Dev img2img 12B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
Flux Kontext Dev	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Very Slow
LongCat-Image Edit	F Can't Run	FP16	15 GB	Slow

Inpainting

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
SD 1.5 Inpainting	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
SDXL Inpainting	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Slow
PowerPaint v2.1	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Slow
BrushNet	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Fill Dev	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow

ControlNet

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
ControlNet SD 1.5	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
T2I-Adapter SDXL	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
ControlNet SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Slow
ControlNet Flux	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow

Video

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
WAN 2.1 T2V 1.3B	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
AnimateDiff Lightning	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5)	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
ZeroScope v2 576w	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
AnimateDiff V2V	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
AnimateDiff I2V	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
Stable Video Diffusion 1.1	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
CogVideoX 2B	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
ModelScope T2V	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
TokenFlow	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Latte	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
SEINE	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite 3B	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Slow
LTX-Video 0.9 (2B)	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
LTX-Video I2V	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
Stable Video Diffusion XT 1.1 (25 frames)	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
DynamiCrafter 512	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 T2V A14B (MoE)	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 TI2V 5B	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 I2V A14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 T2V 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 480P 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 V2V	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo T2V v1.5	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V v1.5	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo 13B T2V	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
AnimateDiff SDXL	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
Waver 1.0	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
SkyReels V3 R2V 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	9 GB	Slow
Wan 2.2 S2V 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 720P 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
Wan-Animate-2 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
SCAIL-2 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
Wan-Dancer 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
HuMo 17B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
CogVideoX 5B	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
CogVideoX 5B I2V	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
SkyReels V1	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
SkyReels V1 I2V	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
Wan 2.2 Animate 14B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	11 GB	Very Slow
LTX-2 19B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	11 GB	Very Slow
Ovi 1.1	F Can't Run	Offload	5 GB	Very Slow
MiniMax H3 FL2VA	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Very Slow
MiniMax H3 Ref2VA	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Very Slow
LongCat-Video 13.6B	F Can't Run	Offload	6 GB	Very Slow
LTX-2.5 22B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Very Slow
LTX-2.3 22B	F Can't Run	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Very Slow
FramePack I2V HY FP8	F Can't Run	Offload	8 GB	Very Slow
LTX-Video 13B	F Can't Run	Offload	12 GB	Very Slow
Open-Sora 2.0 (11B)	F Can't Run	Offload	12 GB	Very Slow
MAGI-1	F Can't Run	Offload	12 GB	Very Slow
DynamiCrafter 1024	F Can't Run	Offload	12 GB	Very Slow
MOVA	F Can't Run	—	needs 29 GB	—
Mochi 1 10B	F Can't Run	Offload	16 GB	Very Slow

Upscaler

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
4x-UltraSharp	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
4x-Remacri	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
SwinIR	S Perfect	FP32	0.5 GB	Fast
RealESRGAN x4plus	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
HAT	S Perfect	FP32	0.5 GB	Fast
DAT	S Perfect	FP32	0.5 GB	Fast
ScuNET	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
LDSR	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
SeedVR2 3B	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Slow
SeedVR2 7B	F Can't Run	FP16	16 GB	Slow

Face/Restore

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
GFPGAN v1.4	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
CodeFormer v0.1	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast

VAE

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
SD 1.5 VAE ft-mse	S Perfect	FP32	0.2 GB	Fast
Flux VAE	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
SDXL VAE	S Perfect	FP32	0.3 GB	Fast
TAESD / TAESDXL	S Perfect	FP32	0.1 GB	Fast

3D

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
TripoSR	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Shap-E	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
InstantMesh	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
Zero123++ v1.2	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
LGM	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
One-2-3-45	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Hunyuan3D 2.1	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
SV3D	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Slow
Hunyuan3D 2.0	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
Pixal3D	F Can't Run	FP16	14 GB	Slow
TRELLIS.2 4B	F Can't Run	—	needs 12 GB	—
SAM 3D Objects	F Can't Run	—	needs 32 GB	—

Audio

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
MusicGen Small (300M)	C Usable	FP16	2 GB	Moderate
XTTS v2	C Usable	FP16	3 GB	Moderate
Whisper Large v3	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Audio Open	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
MusicGen Medium (1.5B)	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Slow
Bark	C Usable	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Stable Audio 3 Small-SFX	D Barely	FP16	3 GB	Moderate
Qwen3-TTS 1.7B	D Barely	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
Chatterbox Multilingual	D Barely	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
MMAudio Large 44k	D Barely	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
IndexTTS 2.5	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Slow
VibeVoice 1.5B	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Slow
Stable Audio 3 Medium	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Slow
ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Slow
Fish Audio S2 Pro 4B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	7 GB	Slow
MusicGen Large (3.3B)	F Can't Run	FP16	12 GB	Slow
YuE2 3B	F Can't Run	Offload	8 GB	Very Slow
MiniMax Music 3	F Can't Run	Offload	8 GB	Very Slow

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the Apple M1 have?

The Apple M1 has 16 GB of unified memory (shared with the CPU) with 68 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What AI models can the Apple M1 run?

It can run 165 of the 168 AI models we track: 13 perfectly (S), 0 great (A), 0 good (B), 36 usable (C) and 49 barely (D). 70 need more VRAM than it has.

Can the Apple M1 run MiniMax H3 FL2VA?

Yes, in GGUF Q4 (rating F, can't run).

Can the Apple M1 run MiniMax H3 Ref2VA?