MacBook Air M2 16GB

macOS High tier · Apple M2 · 16 GB RAM · 100 GB/s bandwidth
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BENCHMARK RESULTS (70)
Model Quant Measured Estimated RAM used App Source Date
Ternary Bonsai 1.7B Ternary Bonsai 1.7B Q2 216 tok/s 200 tok/s +8% 0.4 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-05
🗣️ Kokoro 82M FP16 207 tok/s 200 tok/s +4% 0.5 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-28
🔢 BGE Small FP16 203 tok/s 200 tok/s +2% 0.1 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-02-26
🗣️ KittenTTS Nano FP16 199 tok/s 200 tok/s +0% 0.1 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-01-17
🔢 all-MiniLM-L6-v2 FP16 195 tok/s 200 tok/s -2% 0.1 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-21
🔢 Nomic Embed Text FP16 195 tok/s 200 tok/s -2% 0.3 GB Ollama community 2026-05-27
🗣️ KittenTTS Mini FP16 190 tok/s 200 tok/s -5% 0.2 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-15
Whisper Small Whisper Small FP16 190 tok/s 200 tok/s -5% 0.6 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-18
Wav2Vec2 Base Wav2Vec2 Base FP16 183 tok/s 200 tok/s -8% 0.3 GB MacWhisper community 2026-05-23
SmolLM2 135M SmolLM2 135M FP16 179 tok/s 200 tok/s -10% 0.3 GB Jan community 2026-02-24
Whisper Tiny Whisper Tiny FP16 178 tok/s 200 tok/s -11% 0.1 GB MacWhisper community 2026-01-17
🔢 GTE Large FP16 160 tok/s 149 tok/s +7% 0.7 GB Ollama community 2026-03-05
SmolLM2 360M SmolLM2 360M FP16 112 tok/s 109 tok/s +3% 1.0 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-02-05
Ternary Bonsai 4B Ternary Bonsai 4B Q2 104 tok/s 116 tok/s -10% 1.1 GB Ollama community 2026-01-17
👁️ SmolVLM 500M FP16 99 tok/s 91 tok/s +9% 1.3 GB Ollama community 2026-02-21
Bonsai 8B (1-bit) Bonsai 8B (1-bit) Q1 93 tok/s 86 tok/s +8% 1.3 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-02-09
🗣️ OuteTTS 0.3 500M FP16 93 tok/s 100 tok/s -7% 1.3 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-24
Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B FP16 81 tok/s 83 tok/s -2% 1.4 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-01-18
Qwen 2.5 0.5B Qwen 2.5 0.5B FP16 75 tok/s 83 tok/s -10% 1.5 GB LM Studio community 2026-04-22
🗣️ NeuTTS Air FP16 70 tok/s 67 tok/s +4% 1.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-16
Whisper Medium Whisper Medium FP16 70 tok/s 67 tok/s +4% 1.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-13
Ternary Bonsai 8B Ternary Bonsai 8B Q2 64 tok/s 63 tok/s +2% 1.8 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-05-10
🎙️ Distil-Whisper Large V3 FP16 60 tok/s 67 tok/s -10% 1.9 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-04-18
Bonsai Image 4B Bonsai Image 4B Q2 56 tok/s 56 tok/s +0% 1.9 GB Jan community 2026-04-22
Qwen 3.5 0.8B Qwen 3.5 0.8B FP16 52 tok/s 56 tok/s -7% 1.9 GB LM Studio community 2026-01-03
🎨 Stable Diffusion Turbo FP16 47 tok/s 48 tok/s -2% 2.3 GB Ollama community 2026-01-06
TinyLlama 1.1B TinyLlama 1.1B FP16 45 tok/s 45 tok/s +0% 2.5 GB Ollama community 2026-02-07
LFM2.5 1.2B LFM2.5 1.2B FP16 44 tok/s 43 tok/s +2% 2.6 GB Jan community 2026-02-07
Gemma 3 1B Gemma 3 1B FP16 40 tok/s 45 tok/s -11% 2.5 GB Jan community 2026-05-14
Llama 3.2 1B Llama 3.2 1B FP16 38 tok/s 37 tok/s +3% 3.4 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-02-24
Whisper Large V3 Whisper Large V3 FP16 32 tok/s 32 tok/s +0% 3.4 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-12
Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B FP16 31 tok/s 31 tok/s +0% 3.9 GB Jan community 2026-04-09
🗣️ Dia 1.6B FP16 31 tok/s 30 tok/s +3% 4.2 GB Piper editorial 2026-02-24
StableLM 2 1.6B StableLM 2 1.6B FP16 28 tok/s 30 tok/s -7% 4.1 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-04-20
SmolLM2 1.7B SmolLM2 1.7B FP16 28 tok/s 29 tok/s -3% 4.2 GB Ollama community 2026-04-20
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 1.5B FP16 27 tok/s 30 tok/s -10% 4.0 GB Ollama community 2026-02-24
👁️ Moondream 2B FP16 27 tok/s 27 tok/s +0% 4.6 GB Jan community 2026-04-20
Gemma 4 E2B Gemma 4 E2B FP16 25 tok/s 22 tok/s +14% 5.1 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-03-12
Qwen 3.5 2B Qwen 3.5 2B FP16 22 tok/s 24 tok/s -8% 4.7 GB Jan community 2026-04-10
🎨 Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium FP16 21 tok/s 22 tok/s -5% 5.9 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-03
👨‍💻 StarCoder2 3B FP16 17 tok/s 16 tok/s +6% 7.0 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-01-14
Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B FP16 17 tok/s 16 tok/s +6% 7.5 GB Jan community 2026-03-14
Qwen 2.5 3B Qwen 2.5 3B FP16 16 tok/s 16 tok/s +0% 8.2 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-02-26
Llama 3.2 3B Llama 3.2 3B FP16 16 tok/s 15 tok/s +7% 7.2 GB LM Studio community 2026-02-26
Gemma 3n E4B Gemma 3n E4B Q8 13 tok/s 14 tok/s -7% 8.0 GB LM Studio community 2026-05-26
Qwen 3.5 4B Qwen 3.5 4B FP16 13 tok/s 12 tok/s +8% 8.8 GB LM Studio community 2026-03-02
Phi-4 Mini Phi-4 Mini FP16 13 tok/s 13 tok/s +0% 8.9 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-04-07
👁️ LLaVA 1.6 7B Q8 13 tok/s 13 tok/s +0% 8.3 GB Ollama community 2026-02-08
🎨 SDXL Turbo FP16 13 tok/s 15 tok/s -13% 8.2 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-04-18
Qwen 2.5 7B Qwen 2.5 7B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 8.6 GB LM Studio community 2026-02-23
Llama 3.1 8B Llama 3.1 8B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 10.1 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-05-14
Gemma 3 12B Gemma 3 12B Q6 12 tok/s 11 tok/s +9% 11.2 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-22
Mistral Nemo 12B Mistral Nemo 12B Q6 12 tok/s 11 tok/s +9% 11.2 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-13
Mistral 7B Mistral 7B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 8.7 GB Ollama community 2026-02-06
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 9.3 GB LM Studio community 2026-05-12
👨‍💻 DeepSeek Coder 6.7B Q8 12 tok/s 14 tok/s -14% 8.7 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-16
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 8.9 GB Ollama community 2026-05-27
Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Q8 12 tok/s 12 tok/s +0% 10.7 GB Jan community 2026-04-22
Gemma 3n E2B Gemma 3n E2B FP16 11 tok/s 11 tok/s +0% 9.6 GB Ollama community 2026-02-10
Gemma 4 31B Gemma 4 31B Q2 11 tok/s 10 tok/s +10% 12.8 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-03-16
Qwen 3.5 9B Qwen 3.5 9B Q8 11 tok/s 10 tok/s +10% 12.0 GB Ollama community 2026-02-20
LFM2.5 8B A1B LFM2.5 8B A1B Q8 11 tok/s 11 tok/s +0% 9.5 GB Ollama community 2026-02-06
🧠 DeepSeek R1 Distill 7B Q8 11 tok/s 12 tok/s -8% 10.3 GB Xybrid CLI editorial 2026-05-24
🧠 Qwen3 8B Q8 11 tok/s 11 tok/s +0% 9.6 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-05-08
🎨 FLUX.1 Schnell Q6 11 tok/s 11 tok/s +0% 12.1 GB LM Studio editorial 2026-02-27
Gemma 3 4B Gemma 3 4B FP16 10 tok/s 11 tok/s -9% 11.3 GB Xybrid CLI community 2026-04-04
Gemma 4 E4B Gemma 4 E4B FP16 10 tok/s 11 tok/s -9% 10.8 GB LM Studio community 2026-02-11
👨‍💻 Laguna XS.2 Q2 10 tok/s 9 tok/s +11% 13.1 GB Jan community 2026-03-15
Gemma 4 26B A4B Gemma 4 26B A4B Q2 9 tok/s 10 tok/s -10% 11.4 GB Jan community 2026-05-11
Phi-4 Medium Phi-4 Medium Q6 9 tok/s 9 tok/s +0% 13.2 GB Ollama community 2026-04-22
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