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Can the Apple M5 Max (64 GB) run Yi Coder 1.5B Chat?

51 ptsUsable (C) · 51 of 100 points: Model quality 7.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 4.3/15

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At F16 it needs about 9.0 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 103 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
103 tok/s
Prompt processing
7,918 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
128K

Download Yi Coder 1.5B Chat

Recommended for the Apple M5 Max (64 GB): F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

ollama run yi-coder:1.5b-chat-fp16

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF:F16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from 01.AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the C grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.7.2 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.4.3 / 15
Total51.5 / 10051 ptsUsable (C) · 51 of 100 points: Model quality 7.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 4.3/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the Apple M5 Max (64 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Fit Grade · points Download
Q2_K 6.6 GB 48.0 GB 720 tok/s Runs well 48 ptsUsable (C) · 48 of 100 points: Model quality 5.0/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.2/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 6.8 GB 48.0 GB 567 tok/s Runs well 49 ptsUsable (C) · 49 of 100 points: Model quality 6.0/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.3/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 7.0 GB 48.0 GB 439 tok/s Runs well 50 ptsUsable (C) · 50 of 100 points: Model quality 6.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.3/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 7.1 GB 48.0 GB 362 tok/s Runs well 50 ptsUsable (C) · 50 of 100 points: Model quality 7.0/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.4/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 7.3 GB 48.0 GB 304 tok/s Runs well 50 ptsUsable (C) · 50 of 100 points: Model quality 7.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.5/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 7.6 GB 48.0 GB 223 tok/s Runs well 50 ptsUsable (C) · 50 of 100 points: Model quality 7.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 3.7/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 9.0 GB 48.0 GB 103 tok/s Runs well 51 ptsUsable (C) · 51 of 100 points: Model quality 7.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 4.3/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.