What Can the Apple M5 Pro Run?

24 GB · compatibility with 168 AI models

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Short answer: the Apple M5 Pro (24 GB) can run 166 of 168 AI image, video, 3D and audio models we track. Best picks: SDXL Base 1.0, SDXL img2img, Stable Diffusion 1.5, SD 1.5 img2img, SD 1.5 Inpainting. Unified memory, up to 64GB config.

S Perfect	A Great	B Good	C Usable	D Barely	F Can't Run
13 models	0 models	36 models	13 models	91 models	15 models

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Apple M5 Pro specs for AI

Brand	Apple
Series	M5
VRAM	24 GB
Architecture	m5
FP16 compute	9.7 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth	307 GB/s
Released	2026

AI models on the Apple M5 Pro

Each model uses the best format that fits in 24 GB. How ratings work.

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Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
Stable Diffusion 1.5	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 1.4	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 2.1	B Good	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
PixArt-Alpha 600M	B Good	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 2.0	B Good	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
SDXL Base 1.0	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Turbo	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Animagine XL 3.1	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Pony Diffusion v6 XL	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
NoobAI XL	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Juggernaut XL Ragnarok	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Lightning 4-step	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
DreamShaper XL	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Illustrious XL v1.0	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Playground v2.5 2.6B	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
RealVisXL v5.0	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Epicrealism XL	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
PixArt-Sigma 900M	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (2B)	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
SDXL Hyper 1-step	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (2.5B)	B Good	FP16	8 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
Flux.2 Klein 4B	D Barely	FP16	13 GB	Moderate
Qwen-Image 2.1	D Barely	FP16	14 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
Krea 2 Turbo	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
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
Qwen-Image 2512 (20B)	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
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
Flux.2 Dev 32B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	18 GB	Slow
Flux.1 Dev 12B	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
Flux.1 Schnell 12B	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
FLUX.1 Krea Dev	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate

Image to Image

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
SD 1.5 img2img	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
InstructPix2Pix	B Good	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
SDXL img2img	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
IP-Adapter SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Moderate
IP-Adapter FaceID SDXL	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
Mage-Flow 4B	D Barely	FP16	10 GB	Moderate
LongCat-Image Edit	D Barely	FP16	15 GB	Moderate
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511	D Barely	GGUF Q4	12 GB	Slow
Boogu-Image Edit	D Barely	FP16	21 GB	Moderate
Flux.1 Dev img2img 12B	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
Flux Kontext Dev	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate

Inpainting

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
SD 1.5 Inpainting	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
SDXL Inpainting	B Good	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
PowerPaint v2.1	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
BrushNet	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Flux.1 Fill Dev	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate

ControlNet

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
ControlNet SD 1.5	B Good	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
ControlNet SDXL	D Barely	FP16	9 GB	Moderate
T2I-Adapter SDXL	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
ControlNet Flux	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow

Video

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
WAN 2.1 T2V 1.3B	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff Lightning	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff v3 (SD 1.5)	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
ZeroScope v2 576w	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff V2V	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
AnimateDiff I2V	C Usable	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
Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite 3B	D Barely	FP16	9 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
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
WAN 2.2 T2V A14B (MoE)	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.2 I2V A14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 T2V 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 480P 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 V2V	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo T2V v1.5	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V v1.5	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo 13B T2V	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
HunyuanVideo I2V	D Barely	GGUF Q4	8 GB	Slow
SkyReels V3 R2V 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	9 GB	Slow
Wan 2.2 S2V 14B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	10 GB	Slow
WAN 2.1 I2V 720P 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
DynamiCrafter 1024	D Barely	FP16	18 GB	Moderate
LTX-2.5 22B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Slow
LTX-2.3 22B	D Barely	GGUF Q4	13 GB	Slow
LongCat-Video 13.6B	D Barely	Offload	6 GB	Very Slow
FramePack I2V HY FP8	D Barely	Offload	8 GB	Very Slow
Ovi 1.1	D Barely	FP16	23 GB	Moderate
LTX-Video 13B	D Barely	Offload	12 GB	Very Slow
Mochi 1 10B	F Can't Run	Offload	16 GB	Very Slow
Open-Sora 2.0 (11B)	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
MAGI-1	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
MOVA	F Can't Run	—	needs 29 GB	—

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	B Good	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	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Shap-E	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
InstantMesh	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Zero123++ v1.2	C Usable	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	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
SAM 3D Objects	F Can't Run	—	needs 32 GB	—

Audio

Model	Rating	Runs as	VRAM used	Speed
MusicGen Small (300M)	B Good	FP16	2 GB	Fast
Whisper Large v3	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
XTTS v2	B Good	FP16	3 GB	Fast
Stable Audio Open	B Good	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
MusicGen Medium (1.5B)	B Good	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
Bark	B Good	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
Chatterbox Multilingual	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Stable Audio 3 Small-SFX	C Usable	FP16	3 GB	Fast
MMAudio Large 44k	C Usable	FP16	4 GB	Moderate
Qwen3-TTS 1.7B	C Usable	FP16	5 GB	Moderate
IndexTTS 2.5	C Usable	FP16	6 GB	Moderate
VibeVoice 1.5B	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
Stable Audio 3 Medium	D Barely	FP16	7 GB	Moderate
ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo	D Barely	FP16	8 GB	Moderate
MusicGen Large (3.3B)	D Barely	FP16	12 GB	Moderate
YuE2 3B	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
MiniMax Music 3	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate
Fish Audio S2 Pro 4B	F Can't Run	FP16	24 GB	Moderate

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the Apple M5 Pro have?

The Apple M5 Pro has 24 GB of unified memory (shared with the CPU) with 307 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What AI models can the Apple M5 Pro run?

It can run 166 of the 168 AI models we track: 13 perfectly (S), 0 great (A), 36 good (B), 13 usable (C) and 91 barely (D). 15 need more VRAM than it has.

Can the Apple M5 Pro run MiniMax H3 FL2VA?

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

Can the Apple M5 Pro run MiniMax H3 Ref2VA?