Yi-Coder 9B on Apple M2 Ultra · 192GB

✅ Runs comfortably — Yi-Coder 9B @ Q8_0
Yi-Coder 9B 9B at Q8_0 needs ~10.0 GB (weights 8.7 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 141 GB usable (of 192 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~25–40 tok/s (fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 128K
quantneedsspeed
✓ Q8_010.0 GB~25–40 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q6_K8.0 GB~30–50 tok/s (fast)
✓ Q4_K_M6.2 GB~40–70 tok/s (very fast)
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Yi-Coder 9B: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M2 Ultra: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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