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Rig report

MacBook Air/Pro M5 (16GB)

16.0 GB memory · 153 GB/s · 27 of 64 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Devstral Small 2 24BTight / slow

Q2_K · 8.9 GB · 10–15 tok/s · capability 72/100

Fastest that fits: LFM2.5 8B-A1B (MoE) at 46–69 tok/s

Also runs

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Compare against

vs NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M4 (16GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti (16GB) →vs AMD RX 7900 XTX (24GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (24GB) →vs MacBook Air M4 (24GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (32GB) →all comparisons →

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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.