What Can the Apple M1 Pro Run?

32 GB · compatibility with 168 AI models

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Short answer: the Apple M1 Pro (32 GB) can run 168 of 168 AI image, video, 3D and audio models we track. Unified memory.

S Perfect	A Great	B Good	C Usable	D Barely	F Can't Run
13 models	0 models	2 models	34 models	115 models	4 models

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Apple M1 Pro specs for AI

Brand	Apple
Series	M1
VRAM	32 GB
Architecture	m1
FP16 compute	5.2 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth	200 GB/s
Released	2021

AI models on the Apple M1 Pro

Each model uses the best format that fits in 32 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
PixArt-Alpha 600M	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 2.0	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
SDXL Base 1.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Turbo	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (2.5B)	C Usable	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Animagine XL 3.1	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Pony Diffusion v6 XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
NoobAI XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Juggernaut XL Ragnarok	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Lightning 4-step	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
DreamShaper XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Illustrious XL v1.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Playground v2.5 2.6B	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
RealVisXL v5.0	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Epicrealism XL	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
PixArt-Sigma 900M	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (2B)	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Hyper 1-step	C Usable	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
HunyuanDiT 1.5B	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Z-Image Turbo	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
MOSS-Image 5B	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
Flux.1 Lite	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
AuraFlow 0.3	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
Qwen-Image 2.1	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
Flux.2 Klein 4B	D Barely	FP16	13 GB	Moderate
Z-Image Base	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
Ming-Image 0.1 Design	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
Kolors	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
ERNIE-Image 8B	D Barely	FP16	16 GB	Moderate
HiDream-O1-Image 8.8B	D Barely	FP16	16 GB	Moderate
Seedream 3.0	D Barely	FP16	16 GB	Moderate
GLM-Image	D Barely	FP16	16 GB	Moderate
FLUX.2 Klein 9B	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (8B)	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
Chroma1 HD	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
Ideogram 4.0	D Barely	FP16	19 GB	Moderate
HunyuanImage 3.0	D Barely	FP16	20 GB	Moderate
Qwen-Image 2512 (20B)	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Dev 12B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Schnell 12B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
FLUX.1 Krea Dev	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
Krea 2 Turbo	D Barely	FP16	26 GB	Slow
Flux.2 Dev 32B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	18 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	Moderate
IP-Adapter FaceID SDXL	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
IP-Adapter SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Moderate
Mage-Flow 4B	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
LongCat-Image Edit	D Barely	FP16	15 GB	Moderate
Boogu-Image Edit	D Barely	FP16	21 GB	Moderate
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Dev img2img 12B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
Flux Kontext Dev	D Barely	FP16	24 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	Moderate
BrushNet	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
PowerPaint v2.1	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Flux.1 Fill Dev	D Barely	FP16	24 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	Moderate
ControlNet SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Moderate
ControlNet Flux	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow

Video

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
WAN 2.1 T2V 1.3B	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff Lightning	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5)	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
ZeroScope v2 576w	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff V2V	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff I2V	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Stable Video Diffusion 1.1	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
CogVideoX 2B	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
ModelScope T2V	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
TokenFlow	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Latte	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
SEINE	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
LTX-Video 0.9 (2B)	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
LTX-Video I2V	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
Stable Video Diffusion XT 1.1 (25 frames)	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
DynamiCrafter 512	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite 3B	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Moderate
WAN 2.2 TI2V 5B	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff SDXL	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
Waver 1.0	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
CogVideoX 5B	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
CogVideoX 5B I2V	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
SkyReels V1	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
SkyReels V1 I2V	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
DynamiCrafter 1024	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
Wan 2.2 S2V 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
Wan-Animate-2 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
SCAIL-2 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
Wan-Dancer 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
HuMo 17B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
MiniMax H3 FL2VA	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
MiniMax H3 Ref2VA	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
Wan 2.2 Animate 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	11 GB	Slow
LTX-2 19B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	11 GB	Slow
LTX-2.5 22B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Slow
LTX-2.3 22B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Slow
Ovi 1.1	D Barely	FP16	23 GB	Moderate
Open-Sora 2.0 (11B)	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
MAGI-1	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
LongCat-Video 13.6B	D Barely	FP16	27 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 T2V A14B (MoE)	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 I2V A14B	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 T2V 14B	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 480P 14B	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 V2V	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo T2V v1.5	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V v1.5	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo 13B T2V	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
LTX-Video 13B	D Barely	FP16	28 GB	Slow
MOVA	D Barely	FP16	29 GB	Slow
SkyReels V3 R2V 14B	D Barely	FP16	29 GB	Slow
Mochi 1 10B	F Can't Run	Offload	16 GB	Very Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 720P 14B	F Can't Run	FP16	32 GB	Slow
FramePack I2V HY FP8	F Can't Run	FP16	32 GB	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	Moderate
SeedVR2 7B	D Barely	FP16	16 GB	Moderate

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	Moderate
Zero123++ v1.2	D Barely	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
LGM	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
One-2-3-45	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Hunyuan3D 2.1	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
SV3D	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
Hunyuan3D 2.0	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
Pixal3D	D Barely	FP16	14 GB	Moderate
TRELLIS.2 4B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
SAM 3D Objects	F Can't Run	FP16	32 GB	Slow

Audio

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
MusicGen Small (300M)	B Good	FP16	2 GB	Moderate
XTTS v2	B Good	FP16	3 GB	Moderate
Whisper Large v3	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
MusicGen Medium (1.5B)	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Stable Audio Open	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Bark	C Usable	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
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	Moderate
ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
VibeVoice 1.5B	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Audio 3 Medium	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
MusicGen Large (3.3B)	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
YuE2 3B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
MiniMax Music 3	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow
Fish Audio S2 Pro 4B	D Barely	FP16	24 GB	Slow

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the Apple M1 Pro have?

The Apple M1 Pro has 32 GB of unified memory (shared with the CPU) with 200 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What AI models can the Apple M1 Pro run?

It can run 168 of the 168 AI models we track: 13 perfectly (S), 0 great (A), 2 good (B), 34 usable (C) and 115 barely (D). 4 need more VRAM than it has.

Can the Apple M1 Pro run MiniMax H3 FL2VA?

Yes, in GGUF Q4 (rating D, barely).

Can the Apple M1 Pro run MiniMax H3 Ref2VA?