Mac Mini M2 8GB

macOS Mid tier · Apple M2 · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB/s bandwidth
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BENCHMARK RESULTS (69)
Model Quant Measured Estimated RAM used App Source Date
🗣️ KittenTTS Nano FP16 224 tok/s 200 tok/s +12% 0.1 GB Piper community 2026-03-04
Ternary Bonsai 1.7B Ternary Bonsai 1.7B Q2 220 tok/s 200 tok/s +10% 0.4 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-02-08
🗣️ KittenTTS Mini FP16 217 tok/s 200 tok/s +9% 0.2 GB Piper community 2026-03-03
Whisper Tiny Whisper Tiny FP16 215 tok/s 200 tok/s +8% 0.1 GB MacWhisper community 2026-05-11
Wav2Vec2 Base Wav2Vec2 Base FP16 215 tok/s 200 tok/s +8% 0.3 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-14
Whisper Small Whisper Small FP16 202 tok/s 200 tok/s +1% 0.6 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-02-25
Whisper Tiny Whisper Tiny FP16 200 tok/s 200 tok/s +0% 0.2 GB MacWhisper editorial 2026-03-20
🔢 all-MiniLM-L6-v2 FP16 195 tok/s 200 tok/s -2% 0.1 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-21
🗣️ Kokoro 82M FP16 194 tok/s 200 tok/s -3% 0.4 GB Piper community 2026-04-21
🔢 Nomic Embed Text FP16 191 tok/s 200 tok/s -4% 0.3 GB LM Studio community 2026-05-25
🔢 BGE Small FP16 190 tok/s 200 tok/s -5% 0.1 GB Jan community 2026-01-18
SmolLM2 135M SmolLM2 135M FP16 179 tok/s 200 tok/s -10% 0.3 GB Ollama community 2026-02-23
Qwen 2.5 0.5B Qwen 2.5 0.5B Q8 152 tok/s 83 tok/s +83% 0.9 GB Ollama editorial 2026-03-20
🔢 GTE Large FP16 149 tok/s 149 tok/s +0% 0.8 GB Jan community 2026-02-24
SmolLM2 360M SmolLM2 360M FP16 114 tok/s 109 tok/s +5% 1.1 GB LM Studio community 2026-05-07
🗣️ OuteTTS 0.3 500M FP16 111 tok/s 100 tok/s +11% 1.2 GB Piper community 2026-01-17
Ternary Bonsai 4B Ternary Bonsai 4B Q2 103 tok/s 116 tok/s -11% 1.0 GB Ollama community 2026-01-17
👁️ SmolVLM 500M FP16 100 tok/s 91 tok/s +10% 1.3 GB Ollama community 2026-02-23
Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B FP16 92 tok/s 83 tok/s +11% 1.4 GB Jan community 2026-04-06
Bonsai 8B (1-bit) Bonsai 8B (1-bit) Q1 85 tok/s 86 tok/s -1% 1.4 GB Jan community 2026-05-26
Qwen 2.5 0.5B Qwen 2.5 0.5B FP16 76 tok/s 83 tok/s -8% 1.5 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-05-23
🗣️ NeuTTS Air FP16 74 tok/s 67 tok/s +10% 1.8 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-23
Whisper Medium Whisper Medium FP16 69 tok/s 67 tok/s +3% 1.7 GB MacWhisper community 2026-02-11
Ternary Bonsai 8B Ternary Bonsai 8B Q2 62 tok/s 63 tok/s -2% 1.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-07
🎙️ Distil-Whisper Large V3 FP16 62 tok/s 67 tok/s -7% 1.9 GB MacWhisper editorial 2026-04-21
Qwen 3.5 0.8B Qwen 3.5 0.8B FP16 57 tok/s 56 tok/s +2% 2.0 GB Jan community 2026-03-13
Bonsai Image 4B Bonsai Image 4B Q2 54 tok/s 56 tok/s -4% 2.2 GB Jan community 2026-04-18
🎨 Stable Diffusion Turbo FP16 53 tok/s 48 tok/s +10% 2.5 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-19
Gemma 3 1B Gemma 3 1B FP16 46 tok/s 45 tok/s +2% 2.7 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-03-01
LFM2.5 1.2B LFM2.5 1.2B FP16 43 tok/s 43 tok/s +0% 2.6 GB Jan community 2026-02-06
TinyLlama 1.1B TinyLlama 1.1B FP16 40 tok/s 45 tok/s -11% 2.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-24
Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B FP16 34 tok/s 31 tok/s +10% 3.6 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-01-02
Whisper Large V3 Whisper Large V3 FP16 34 tok/s 32 tok/s +6% 3.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-18
Llama 3.2 1B Llama 3.2 1B FP16 33 tok/s 37 tok/s -11% 2.9 GB Jan community 2026-04-09
StableLM 2 1.6B StableLM 2 1.6B FP16 32 tok/s 30 tok/s +7% 4.0 GB Jan community 2026-02-11
SmolLM2 1.7B SmolLM2 1.7B FP16 29 tok/s 29 tok/s +0% 4.2 GB Jan community 2026-05-25
🗣️ Dia 1.6B FP16 29 tok/s 30 tok/s -3% 4.0 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-13
👁️ Moondream 2B FP16 28 tok/s 27 tok/s +4% 3.9 GB Jan community 2026-04-23
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 1.5B FP16 27 tok/s 30 tok/s -10% 4.2 GB Jan community 2026-03-25
👨‍💻 StarCoder2 3B Q8 27 tok/s 30 tok/s -10% 4.2 GB Ollama community 2026-02-23
Qwen 2.5 3B Qwen 2.5 3B Q8 26 tok/s 29 tok/s -10% 3.9 GB Ollama community 2026-04-11
Llama 3.2 3B Llama 3.2 3B Q8 26 tok/s 28 tok/s -7% 4.2 GB Jan community 2026-04-11
Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B Q8 26 tok/s 29 tok/s -10% 4.2 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-22
🎨 SDXL Turbo Q8 24 tok/s 26 tok/s -8% 4.1 GB LM Studio community 2026-04-21
Gemma 4 E4B Gemma 4 E4B Q8 22 tok/s 20 tok/s +10% 5.5 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-04
Phi-4 Mini Phi-4 Mini Q8 22 tok/s 23 tok/s -4% 4.6 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-02
🎨 FLUX.1 Schnell Q3 22 tok/s 20 tok/s +10% 5.6 GB Ollama community 2026-04-10
Gemma 3 4B Gemma 3 4B Q8 21 tok/s 20 tok/s +5% 5.8 GB Ollama community 2026-01-17
Qwen 2.5 7B Qwen 2.5 7B Q5 21 tok/s 20 tok/s +5% 5.4 GB Ollama community 2026-02-27
Llama 3.1 8B Llama 3.1 8B Q5 21 tok/s 19 tok/s +11% 6.8 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-01-19
Gemma 4 E2B Gemma 4 E2B FP16 21 tok/s 22 tok/s -5% 5.4 GB Ollama community 2026-05-23
Qwen 3.5 2B Qwen 3.5 2B FP16 21 tok/s 24 tok/s -12% 4.8 GB Jan community 2026-04-08
Qwen 3.5 4B Qwen 3.5 4B Q8 21 tok/s 23 tok/s -9% 4.9 GB Jan community 2026-05-12
Mistral 7B Mistral 7B Q5 21 tok/s 20 tok/s +5% 5.8 GB Jan community 2026-03-15
🎨 Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium FP16 21 tok/s 22 tok/s -5% 4.9 GB Jan community 2026-03-01
Gemma 3n E2B Gemma 3n E2B Q8 20 tok/s 21 tok/s -5% 5.1 GB Ollama community 2026-01-05
Gemma 3n E4B Gemma 3n E4B Q5 20 tok/s 20 tok/s +0% 5.9 GB Ollama community 2026-01-04
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B Q5 20 tok/s 19 tok/s +5% 6.2 GB Jan community 2026-03-26
👨‍💻 DeepSeek Coder 6.7B Q6 20 tok/s 19 tok/s +5% 6.0 GB Jan community 2026-02-06
Gemma 3 12B Gemma 3 12B Q3 19 tok/s 19 tok/s +0% 6.0 GB Ollama community 2026-02-11
Phi-4 Medium Phi-4 Medium Q2 19 tok/s 21 tok/s -10% 5.4 GB Ollama editorial 2026-03-18
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 7B Q5 18 tok/s 20 tok/s -10% 5.5 GB Ollama community 2026-02-08
🧠 Qwen3 8B Q5 18 tok/s 18 tok/s +0% 6.3 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-05-07
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Q5 18 tok/s 20 tok/s -10% 6.6 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-03-17
Mistral Nemo 12B Mistral Nemo 12B Q3 17 tok/s 19 tok/s -11% 6.4 GB LM Studio community 2026-04-21
LFM2.5 8B A1B LFM2.5 8B A1B Q5 17 tok/s 18 tok/s -6% 7.2 GB Ollama editorial 2026-02-06
👁️ LLaVA 1.6 7B Q6 17 tok/s 18 tok/s -6% 6.1 GB LM Studio community 2026-01-04
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Q5 17 tok/s 19 tok/s -11% 6.1 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-01-04
Qwen 3.5 9B Qwen 3.5 9B Q4 16 tok/s 18 tok/s -11% 6.8 GB Jan community 2026-03-24
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